In re Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.2d 569 · 1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2009
3 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. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 111 · 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 132
Relies on In re Marzocchi · Weiss v. Roschke · In re Cook · In re Argoudelis · In re DiLeone
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the filing date is so important in determining patent rights, it is essential that there be no question that, at the time an application for patent is filed, the invention claimed therein is fully capable of being reduced to practice (i.e. that no technological problems, the resolution of which would require more than ordinary skill and reasonable time, remain in order to obtain an operative, useful embodiment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Argoudelis, we rejected the board's proposition that section 111 of the statute requires that the specification must be enabling as filed. We again reject it____ [T]he function of section 112 in ensuring complete public disclosure is only violated if the disclosure is not complete at the time it is made public, i.e., at the issue date, (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Lundak“the Commissioner of Patents is vested with wide discretion to formulate rules and guidelines governing [the] use [of incorporation by reference], thereby to prevent its abuse,”
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.