Application of Thomas B. McGuire and Andrew Pogan’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
March 1977
most recently cited
Most-quoted passages
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“Appellants argue the century-old status of the references but this argument does not impress us, absent some showing that the art tried and failed to solve some problem notwithstanding its presumed knowledge of the references. For aught that appears, as soon as the need for an inside tubing cutter for copper tube was perceived it was produced out of the accumulated skill of the art.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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