Okajima v. Bourdeau’s Empirical Analysis
261 F.3d 1350 · 2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2025
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 141
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · In re Gartside · Litton Industrial Products, Inc. v. Solid State Systems Corp. · Kloster Speedsteel AB v. Crucible Inc. · Al-Site Corporation v. Vsi International Inc
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is always preferable for the factfinder below to specify the level of skill it has found to apply to the invention at issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the level of skill in the art is a prism or lens through which a judge, jury, or the Board views the prior art and the claimed invention. This reference point prevents these factfinders from using their own insight or, worse yet, hindsight, to gauge obviousness.”
1 later decision 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.