In Re Michael P. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
August 2014
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Seattle Box Company Inc v. Industrial Crating and Packing Inc F · In re Weiler · In Re John Kollar · In re Rowand · In re Orita
Most-quoted passages
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“a patent application filed as a continuation ... upon an originally filed application must be filed ‘before the patenting or abandonment of or termination of proceedings on the first application or on an application similarly entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the first application’ in order to receive the benefit of the earlier filing date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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