In Re John Kollar’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably In Re Wilhelm Elsner. In Re Keith W. Zary (2004), Vernon F. Minton v. National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. And the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (2003)
4 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
Relies on Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. · In re Gartside · Wl Gore Associates Inc v. Garlock Inc · Moleculon Research Corporation v. Cbs Inc · Mas-Hamilton Group v. LaGard, 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a commercial transaction arranged as a `license' or a `lease' of a product or a device ... may be tantamount to a sale ( e.g., a standard computer software license), whereupon the bar of § 102(b) would be triggered because `the product is ... just as immediately transferred to the `buyer' as if it were sold,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a know-how agreement `under which development of the claimed process would have to occur before the process is successfully commercialized, is not a sale,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is defined as 'an act, or a series of acts.' " Kaneka Corp. v. Xiamen Kingdomway Grp. Co. , 790 F.3d 1298 , 1305 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (citing Gottschalk v. Benson , 409 U.S. 63 , 70, 93 S.Ct. 253 , 34 L.Ed.2d 273 (1972) ; In re Kollar , 286 F.3d 1326 , 1332 (Fed. Cir. 2002) ("A process ... consists of doing something, and therefore has to be carried out or performed.”
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.