Scaltech Inc. v. Retec/Tetra, L.L.C.’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.3d 1378 · 1999
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Allen Engineering Corporation v. Bartell Industries Inc (2002), Tec Air, Inc. v. Denso Manufacturing Michigan Inc. (1999)
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Elizabeth v. Pavement Co. · Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. · Continental Can Company Usa Inc v. Monsanto Company
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the subject of the barring activity met each of the limitations of the claim, and thus was an embodiment of the claimed invention.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Commercial exploitation, if not incidental to the primary purpose of experimentation, will result in an on sale bar, even if the invention was still in its experimental stage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the process that was offered for sale inherently possessed each of the claim limitations, then the process was on sale, whether or not the seller recognized that his process possessed the claimed characteristics.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.