Allvoice Computing PLC v. Nuance Communications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.3d 1236 · 2007
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Ltd. v. International Game Technology & IGT (2008), Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. eSpeed, Inc. (2010)
17 federal appellate · 8 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. § 112
Relies on KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. · Phillips v. AWH Corp. · Cybor Corporation v. Fas Technologies, Inc., and Fastar Ltd., Defendants-Cross · Teleflex, Inc. v. Ficosa North America Corp. · Comark Communications, Inc. v. Harris Corp.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Claim definiteness ... depends on the skill .level of a person of ordinaiy skill in the art. In software cases, therefore, algorithms in the specification need only disclose adequate defining structure to render the bounds of the claim understandable to one of ordinary skill in the art. ■ .”
3 later decisions 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.