Cordis Corporation v. Medtronic Ave Inc’s Empirical Analysis
339 F.3d 1352 · 2003
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Koito Manufacturing Co. v. Turn-Key-Tech, LLC (2004), Sandisk Corporation v. Memorex Products Inc (2005)
31 federal appellate · 11 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 Omega Engineering, Inc. v. Raytek Corp. · Johnson Worldwide Associates, Inc. v. Zebco Corp. · Rexnord Corporation v. The Laitram Corporation Intralox Inc · Lawrence B. Lockwood v. American Airlines, Inc. · Gentry Gallery, Inc. v. Berkline Corp.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of largely or approximately uniform thickness”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court described the wall surface by stating that “the outer surface of the tubular member must be disposed in a common cylindrical plane.” That “common cylindrical plane” is formed by an imaginary circle that intersects with the outermost point of each round strut. The thickness of the wall is equal to the diameter of each round strut, i.e., the distance between the outer point that intersects the wall surface and the corresponding inner point that intersects a similar imaginary cylindrical surface on the inside of the tubular member.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the patent specification must describe an invention in sufficient detail that one skilled in the art can clearly conclude that the inventor invented what is claimed'”
2 later decisions 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.