Velander v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.3d 1359 · 2003
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Pfizer, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc. (2007), Medichem Sa v. Rolabo Sl (2006)
12 federal appellate · 7 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the prior art would have suggested to those of ordinary skill in the art that they should make the claimed composition or device, or carry out the claimed process; and (2) whether the prior art would also have revealed that in so making or carrying out, those of ordinary skill would have a reasonable expectation of success.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). Because the decision of the Board is supported by substantial evidence and is not contrary to law, we affirm. BACKGROUND I. 2 This case relates to the production of non-human mammals that have been genetically altered (”
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.