Application of Robert J. Harry’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1989
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
Relies on Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co. · Detrola Radio & Television Corp. v. Hazeltine Corp. · In re Smith · In re Seid · Application of David Gregg
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the difference between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In our opinion, the "prior art” referred to in %10S includes, along with the patents, printed publications, public uses and sales of paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 102, prior invention as established by a copending application, if it becomes a patent, as contemplated by paragraph (e) and as held in the Milium case. Such prior invention, as prior art, may ie comiined with other references to sustain a rejection for oiviousness under section 103.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Bass
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.