Brown v. Barbacid’s Empirical Analysis
436 F.3d 1376 · 2006
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
April 2019
most recently cited
11 federal appellate · 10 district ·
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on Dickinson v. Zurko · Price v. Symsek · Mahurkar v. C.R. Bard, Inc. · In re Sang-Su Lee · In re Jolley
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party is first to conceive but second to reduce to practice, that party must demonstrate reasonable diligence toward reduction to practice from a date just prior to the other party's conception to its reduction to practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no rule requiring a specific kind of activity in determining whether the applicant was reasonably diligent in proceeding toward an actual or constructive reduction to practice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nlike the legal rigor of conception and reduction to practice, diligence and its corroboration may be shown by a variety of activities”
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.