Thomas Lynn Fields v. Lloyd H. Conover and Robert B. Woodward’s Empirical Analysis
443 F.2d 1386 · 1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably In Re Jack R Wands Vincent R Zurawski Jr and Hubert Jp Schoemaker, Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Gen-Probe Inc. (2002)
3 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
Relies on Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co. · Risse Horlein · Swain v. Mallory · In re Lukach · Application of Eric D. Brown
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] disclosure complies with the how-to-make requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112 even though “some experimentation, provided it is not an undue amount” (and provided that it does not require ingenuity beyond that to be expected of one of ordinary skill in the art), is still required”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Angstadt · Hyatt v. Iancu“[E]ven when considered... it falls far short ... of the `full, clear, concise, and exact' written description which we have said is necessary to support subsequently added claims.”
1 later decision 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.