Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 26 U.S.C. § 7701 · 35 U.S.C. § 271
Relies on Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · United States v. Williams · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd · Hibbs Director Arizona Department of Revenue v. Winn et al. · Deepsouth Packing Co. v. Laitram Corp.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever possible, however, we should favor an interpretation that gives meaning to each statutory provision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Whoever without authority supplies or causes to be supplied in or from the United States any component of a patented invention that is especially made or especially adapted for use in the invention and not a staple article or commodity of commerce suitable for substantial noninfringing use, where such component is uncombined in whole or in part, knowing that such component is so made or adapted and intending that such component will be combined outside of the United States in a manner that would infringe the patent if such combination occurred within the United States, shall be liable as an infringer."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Whoever without authority supplies or causes to be supplied in or from the United States all or a substantial portion of the components of a patented invention, where such components are uncombined in whole or in part, in such manner as to actively induce the combination of such components outside of the United States in a manner that would infringe the patent if such combination occurred within the United States, shall be liable as an infringer."”
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.