In re Aslanian’s Empirical Analysis
590 F.2d 911 · 1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 171
Relies on In re Jennings · H. C. White Co. v. Morton E. Converse & Son Co. · In re Hargraves · In re Seid · In re Glavas
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he specific disclosure of structure in a design patent application may inherently teach functional features.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on the basis of what they reasonably disclose and suggest to one skilled in the art”
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.