IpVenture, Inc. v. ProStar Computer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.3d 1324 · 2007
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2024
8 federal appellate · 6 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
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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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“IpVenture is the sole assignee of [the '235 patent and other patents] ... [Hewlett-Packard] has never asserted any ownership rights to the IpVenture Patents and agrees to forbear from asserting such rights at anytime in the future ... [Hewlett-Packard] has no rights ... and never has had any legal or equitable rights, including any shop rights, to any of the IpVenture Patents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only the entity or entities that own or control all substantial rights in a patent can enforce rights controlled by that patent, lest an accused infringer be subjected to multiple suits and duplicate liability. Thus all entities with an independent right to enforce the patent are indispensable or necessary parties to an infringement suit.”
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.