In re Benson’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 682 · 1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013
2 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 100 · 35 U.S.C. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on In re Prater · In re Prater · In re Bernhart · In re Musgrave · Archer v. Gordon
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.
“It seems beyond question that the machines - the computers - are in the technological field, are a part of one of our best-known technologies, and are in the "useful arts” rather than the "liberal arts,” as are all other types of "business machines,” regardless of the uses to which their users may put them. How can it be said that a process having no practical value other than enhancing the internal operation of those machines is not likewise in the technological or useful arts? We conclude that the Patent Office has put forth no sound reason why the claims in this case should be held to be non-statutory. [Id. at 688,169 USPQ at 553.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“signals of the kind upon which the disclosed electronic digital computer hardware operates”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.