In re Carleton’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 1021 · 1979
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Applies 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co. · Perry v. United States · In re Rinehart · In re Warner
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there is a vast amount of knowledge about general relationships in the chemical arts, chemistry is still largely empirical, and there is often great difficulty in predicting precisely how a given compound will behave.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Dillon
How this case has been treated — in progress
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