In re Altenpohl’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.2d 1151 · 1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2011
1 federal appellate ·
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 · 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 251
Relies on Carter-Wallace, Inc. v. William N. Otte, as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Davis-Edwards Pharmacal Corp. · Weller Manufacturing Co. v. Wen Products, Inc. · In re Wiggins · In re Lindell · In re Lindner
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lack of antecedent basis in a claim can render it invalid under 35 USC § 112 , second paragraph, and correction of such a defect by reissue should not have to depend on difference and scope of the claim ... a patentee should be allowed to correct an error or ambiguity in a claim without having to rely on implication or litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The combination of claim 10 wherein said stationary component includes a support post, said locking means [is] being slidably and guidingly mounted upon said support post and [has] having oppositely disposed locking services each abuttingly engaged with one of said locking portion locking services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[l]ack of an antecedent basis in a claim could render it invalid under 35 U.S.C. Sec. 112,”
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.