Application of George v. Eltgroth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
January 1999
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on In re Novak · In re Citron · In re Buting · Application of Marcella Ferens
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has often observed that minutiae of descriptions or procedures perfectly obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art yet unfamiliar to laymen need not be set forth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hyatt v. Boone“some experimentation, provided it is not an undue amount”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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