Koval v. Bodenschatz’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 442 · 1972
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2007
2 district ·
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 Wolfgang B. Klemperer v. Nathan C. Price · John O. Paivinen v. Eugene A. Sands · Myers v. Feigelman · John J. Goodrich v. Arnold C. Harmsen and Burke P. Lokey, Burke P. Lokey v. Arnold C. Harmsen and John J. Goodrich · Hugh S. Knowles v. George C. Tibbetts
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary for testing to have proceeded to the point where the device is ready for commercialization in order to have an actual reduction to practice. * * * However, there must be a relationship between the test conditions and the intended functional setting * * * and the tests must prove that the invention will perform satisfactorily in the intended functional setting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mattor v. Coolegem“hopelessly out of line with that which would be employed in any normal use of a circuit breaker of the defined construction,” some tests resulted in a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had to be discontinued because of the practically inoperable mechanical condition of the breaker,” and the final test”
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.