In re Antonie’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 618 · 1977
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Orthokinetics, Inc. v. Safety Travel Chairs, Inc. (1986), Pfizer, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc. (2007)
10 federal appellate · 4 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. § 293 · 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on In re Sinex · Application of Basil Vivian Aller, Richard Norman Lacey, Reginald Harold Hall · In re Tomlinson · In re Aller · In re Kronig
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in cases where the results of optimizing a variable, which was known to be result effective, were unexpectedly good”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if there is no evidence in the record that the prior art recognized that [that] particular parameter affected the result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the discovery of an optimum value of a variable in a known process is normally obvious.”
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.