Pingree v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 624 · 1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1996
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
Relies on In re Wiechert · Hansgirg v. Kemmer · Ivar Jepson v. Robert E. Coleman, Jr., and Calvin D. MacCracken · Crome v. Morrogh · Young v. Dworkin
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne copying a claim from a patent for the purpose of instituting interference proceedings must show that his application clearly supports the count. There must be no doubt that an application discloses each and every material limitation of the claims and all doubts must be resolved against the copier.... [W]here support must be based on an inherent disclosure, it is not sufficient that a person following the disclosure might obtain the result set forth in the counts; it must inevitably happen.”
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.