Plumtree Software, Inc. v. Datamize, LLC’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.3d 1152 · 2006
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2020
7 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. · Arrowhead Industrial Water, Inc. v. Ecolochem, Inc. · Bp Chemicals Limited v. Union Carbide Corporation · Dl Auld Company v. Chroma Graphics Corp
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]erforming the patented method for commercial purposes before the critical date constitutes a sale under § 102(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he on sale bar rule applies to the sale of an 'invention,' and in this case, the invention was a process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]erforming the process itself for consideration would ... trigger the application of § 102(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.