In re Mattison’s Empirical Analysis
509 F.2d 563 · 1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2010
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. § 112
Relies on Application of Robert E. Moore and Edward J. Janoski · Weiss v. Roschke · Application of Janis Robins · In re Cohn
Most-quoted passages
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“General guidelines are disclosed [in the specification] for a proper choice of the substituent Ep together with a representative number of examples. If the prior art [compound] is modified by the inclusion of ... substituent Ep as claimed, resulting in substantially increased efficiency ..., the compound is within the scope of the claims. Hypothesizing whether an increase in efficiency of 3%, 30%, or 300% is necessary for said increase to be classified as substantial is not determinative of the issue of whether the claims satisfy 35 U.S.C. § 112 , second paragraph.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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