Cool-Fin Electronics Corp. v. International Electronic Research Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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23 federal appellate ·

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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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Unless all of the same elements are found in exactly the same situation and united in the same way to perform the identical function in a single prior art reference there is no anticipation.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 375 F. Supp. 1 - Jack Winter, Inc. v. Koratron Company, Inc. · Clifford A. Schroeder, an Individual v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, a Corporation

2. “(This theoretical person of) ordinary skill in the art is 'charged with knowledge of all that the prior art disclosed at the time of his alleged invention, irrespective of whether persons of ordinary skill in the field, or he himself, or anyone else, actually possessed such all-encompassing familiarity with prior disclosures.' Cool-Fin Electronics Corp. v. International Electronic Research Corp., 491 F.2d 660 , 662 n.7 (9th Cir. 1974), quoting Walker v. General Motors Corp., 362 F.2d 56 , 60 n.3 (9th Cir. 1966). Accord, Layne-New York Co. v. Allied Asphalt Co., 501 F.2d 405 , 406 (3rd Cir. 1974), cert. denied, 421 U.S. 914, 95 S.Ct. 1572, 43 L.Ed.2d 780 (1975).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. · Systematic Tool & Machine Co. v. Walter Kidde & Co.