Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.3d 1200 · 2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. v. St. Jude Medical, Inc. (2009), Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc. (2008)
8 federal appellate · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on Vitronics Corporation v. Conceptronic Inc · Phillips v. AWH Corp. · Cybor Corporation v. Fas Technologies, Inc., and Fastar Ltd., Defendants-Cross · Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. · Amgen Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary of Invention explains that the invention is a communications protocol between the host processor and the terminal device that functions independent of the operating characteristics of a specific terminal device.” In contrast to prior art and taken in context, “it is clear that there is an exchange between the host processor and the terminal device, and that the host processor associates identifiers with objects to assist in controlling display.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Detailed Description indicates a role for the host processor in the control of how and where objects are displayed on the terminal device. Even though the host processor does not maintain total control over object display, as in the prior art, the host processor still plays a role in controlling object display, including relative positioning of objects.”), 1210 (giving examples in which Detailed Description indicates”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. A method of operating a host processor communicating with a terminal device, said method comprising the steps of assigning an identifier to a respective one of a plurality of input object types, and transmitting said identifier and its respective input object type to said device, wherein said plurality of object types includes at least two of the object types choice, entry, text, and image.”
1 later decision 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.