In re Armbruster’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 676 · 1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2005
2 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. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 144 · 35 U.S.C. § 251
Relies on In re Marzocchi · In re Kirk · Application of Robert E. Moore and Edward J. Janoski · Weiss v. Roschke · In re Bowen
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any event, it is incumbent upon the Patent Office, whenever a rejection on this basis is made [35 USC 112, paragraph 1, enablement], to explain why it doubts the truth or accuracy of any statement in a supporting disclosure and to back up assertions of its own with acceptable evidence or reasoning which is inconsistent with the contested statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Budnick“a specification disclosure which contains a teaching of the manner and process of making and using the invention . . . must be taken as in compliance with the enabling requirement of the first paragraph of § 112 unless there is reason to doubt the objective truth of the statements contained therein which must be relied on for enabling support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A specification may contain a disclosure that is sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to make and use the invention and yet fail to comply with the description of the invention requirement.”
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.