In re Mochel’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 638 · 1972
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2018
1 state decisions
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 Fay · Arness v. Franks · In re Sebek · Arness v. Franks · In re Egbert
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No suggestion appears in the record of a purpose for including MgO in sodium glasses and no teaching of identical effects of secondary components in sodium and lithium glasses. We do not consider it “fair to assume” [quoting the examiner] such identity. We cannot, therefore, sustain the finding of prima facie obviousness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Dillon
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.