Application of Lewis H. Sarett’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1994
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 Application of Stanley · In re Sus · Application of Coleman · In re Simmons · In re Cavallito
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not here concerned with what one skilled in the art would be aware from reading the claims but with what inventions the claims define.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is certainly not incumbent on an applicant who has made a broad process invention and supported it by an adequately broad disclosure to demonstrate the operativeness of every substance falling within the scope of the broad claims to which he is entitled. In the instant case the research to do this would quite evidently be endless. [Emphasis supplied].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.