Conover v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.2d 59 · 1929
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1982 · most notably In re Ruscetta (1958), In re Kyrides (1947)
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. · Webster Electric Co. v. Splitdorf Electrical Co. · Chapman v. Wintroath · Wainwright v. Parker · In re Spitteler
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Is appellant entitled to the filing date of his original application, April 30, 1919, for a constructive reduction to practice, as his counsel so vigorously contends? We think not. While it is true that appellant disclosed the process in issue in that application, he did not claim it. That application matured into a patent on December 9, 1919. No claims to this process were made by appellant until he filed his application for a reissue, July 13, 1921. In view of the fact that the claims for the process were for a different invention than that involved in the patent of December 9, 1919, appellant was required by the primary examiner to cancel these claims. This ruling was accepted by appellant, and the claims were canceled. Accordingly, appellant had no proper application for the invention pending in the Patent Office until he filed his independent application on November 28, 1921, nearly two years after his application of April 30, 1919, had matured into a patent. There was, therefore, no parent application pending in the Patent Office to which his application of November 28, 1921, could relate or attach.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Bauman
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.