Microsoft Corporation v. Multi-Tech Systems Inc’s Empirical Analysis
357 F.3d 1340 · 2004
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably NTP, Inc. v. Research in Motion, Ltd. (2005), C.R. Bard, Inc. v. United States Surgical Corp. (2004)
33 federal appellate · 18 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 MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. · Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. · Vitronics Corporation v. Conceptronic Inc · Cybor Corporation v. Fas Technologies, Inc., and Fastar Ltd., Defendants-Cross · United States v. Adams
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hose statements, some of which [were] found in the `Summary of the Invention' portion of the specification, [were] not limited to describing a preferred embodiment, but more broadly describe the overall inventions of [the] patent[ ].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the specification 'makes clear that the invention does not include a particular feature, that feature is deemed to be outside the reach of the claims of the patent, even though the language of the claims, read without reference to the specification, might be considered broad enough to encompass the feature in question.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he prosecution history of one patent is relevant to an understanding of the scope of a common term in a second patent stemming from the same parent application.”
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.