In re Langer’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.2d 896 · 1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2001
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. § 103
Relies on In re Sinex · In re Boe · In re Hoeksema · In re Hofstetter · Application of Franz Ackermann
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * when “all of the disclosures in a reference” are considered, the overall suggestion to emerge from the prior art reference may be contrary to that which might appear from an isolated portion of the reference. [ 465 F.2d at 899 , 59 CCPA at 1260 , 175 USPQ at 171.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Hughes“an isolated hindered amine falling outside the scope of appellants' claims does not, by itself, apprise the ordinary artisan of the significance of hindered amines as a class.”
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.