In re Blondel’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 1311 · 1974
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2005
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 Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · In re Sinex · In re Wiechert · Risse Horlein · In re Lohr
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the showing of a prolongation of the duration of activity beyond what could reasonably be expected by the man of ordinary skill in the arL makes it unnecessary for us to pass on the issue of whether appellant’s claimed compounds are structurally obvious since, even if they are, the prima facie case which that would make for the Patent Office has been overcome by the evidence introduced by the appellants.””
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.