In re Skoll’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 1392 · 1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2016
3 federal appellate · 3 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. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on In re Shaffer · Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co. v. Minnesota Linseed Oil Paint Co. · In re Saunders · In re Gershon · In re Kroekel
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the presentation of this Markush group, appellant has made a representation that for the purpose of the claimed invention the elements of the group are equivalents. Having made the representation ... appellant may not now argue that these two elements are not equivalents.”
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.