Electronics for Imaging, Inc. v. Coyle’s Empirical Analysis
394 F.3d 1341 · 2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Sandisk Corporation v. Stmicroelectronics Inc Nv (2007), Micron Technology, Inc. v. MOSAID Technologies, Inc. (2008)
5 federal appellate · 5 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 Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. · Arrowhead Industrial Water, Inc. v. Ecolochem, Inc. · Bp Chemicals Limited v. Union Carbide Corporation · Genentech, Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co. · Electronics for Imaging, Inc. v. Coyle
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] patent owner ... attempts extrajudicial enforcement with scare-the-customer-and-run tactics that infect the competitive environment of the business community with uncertainty and insecurity. ... Before the Act, competitors ... were rendered helpless and immobile so long as the patent owner refused to grasp the nettle and sue. After the Act, those competitors were no longer restricted to an in terrorem choice between the incurrence of a growing potential liability for patent infringement and abandonment of their enterprises; they could clear the air by suing for a judgment that would settle the conflict of interests.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sound reason that would make it unjust or inefficient to continue the first-filed action. Such reason may be the convenience and availability of witnesses, or absence of jurisdiction over all necessary or desirable parties, or the possibility of consolidation with related litigation, or considerations relating to the real party in interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When there is an actual controversy and a declaratory judgment would settle the legal relations in dispute and afford relief from uncertainty or insecurity, in the usual circumstance the declaratory judgment is not subject to dismissal.”
1 later decision 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.