Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
563 U.S. 776 · 2011
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Federal Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 200 (§ 6 of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980) · 35 U.S.C. § 201 (§ 6 of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980) · 35 U.S.C. § 202 (§ 6 of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980) · 35 U.S.C. § 210 (§ 6 of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 2182 · 42 U.S.C. § 2457 · 42 U.S.C. § 5908
Relies on Whitman Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency v. American Trucking Associations Inc · George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker · Mazer v. Stein · Poe v. Seaborn · Flores-Figueroa v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“basic principle, codified in the Patent Act, that an inventor owns the rights to his invention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“indicating an association between two entities, typically one of belonging”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“used as a function word indicating a possessive relationship.”
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.