In re Lister’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.3d 1307 · 2009
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 141
Relies on In re Gartside · Constant v. Advanced Micro-Devices, Inc. · Northern Telecom, Inc. v. Datapoint Corp. · Cooper Cameron Corporation v. Kvaerner Oilfield Products Inc · In re Cronyn
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reference is considered publicly accessible upon a satisfactory showing that such document has been disseminated or otherwise made available to the extent that persons interested and ordinarily skilled in the subject matter or art, exercising reasonable diligence, can locate it. If accessibility is proved, there is no requirement to show that particular members of the public actually received the information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f accessibility is proved, there is no requirement to show that particular members of the public actually received the information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[O]nce accessibility is shown, it is unnecessary to show that anyone actually inspected the reference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.