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291 F.3d 1345 · 2002

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
November 2012
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 3 district ·

Relationships

Relies on In re Gartside · Sage Products, Inc. v. Devon Industries, Inc. · Perkins v. Kwon · Guinn v. Kopf · Rieser v. Williams

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a] claim which is the same as, or for the same or substantially the same subject matter as, a claim of an issued patent may not be made in any application unless such a claim is made prior to one year from the date on which the patent was granted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[W]hen the board is presented with both a preliminary motion involving a 135(b) issue and a preliminary motion involving a garden-variety patentability issue, it should first address the former.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences shall determine questions of priority of the inventions and may determine questions of patentability.”
    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.