In re Dulberg’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 1394 · 1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2003
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on Larsen
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.
“[t]he granting of a patent on an “invention” in a foreign country has no relevance to the determination of whether the same “invention” would be obvious within the ambit of § 103 since it is notoriously well known that the standards of patentability vary from country to country.”
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.