In re Bulloch’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 1362 · 1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2016
4 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on Kropa v. Robie · In re Land · In re Bass · In re Mathews · In re Bass
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is more than a mere statement of purpose; and that language is essential to particularly point out the invention defined by the claims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“basic rule that 'any proper rejection involving section 102(g), whether or not combined with section 103 ..., must be based upon evidence of an invention prior to that of the applicant.”
2 later decisions 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.