Patterson v. Hauck’s Empirical Analysis
341 F.2d 131 · 1965
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 1981 · most notably Reese v. Hurst (1981), 494 F. Supp. 370 - Standard Oil Company v. Montedison (1980)
6 federal appellate · 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 116 · 35 U.S.C. § 119
Relies on In re Bergel · Torsten Hasselstrom and Malcolm C. Henry v. Blaine C. McKusick · James L. Gianladis v. Gus S. Kass · In re Schmidt
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purpose of corroborative evidence is to confirm and to strengthen the testimony of the inventor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“same effect as the same application would have if filed in this country.”
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.