Application of Bernard L. Zenitz’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2012
3 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. · Abbott v. Coe · Detrola Radio & Television Corp. v. Hazeltine Corp. · In re Stewart · In re Seid
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“[T|hc mere failure of a patentee to realize all the benefits and possibilities of his invention is not fatal. The after-discovery of unsuspected usefulness in a disclosed apparatus, far from detracting from its value, may serve to enhance it. It is the benefits which test, use, and time unfold that really determine merit .... Zenitz disclosed a tranquilizer and subsequently established that if it is used as a tranquilizer and subsequently established that if it used as a tranquilizer, it is a better one, for it minimizes the side effects of hypotensive activity. Therefore, we think the latter proper must be considered in determining the patentability of the claimed compound.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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