In re Koller’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 819 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2017
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 120
Relies on In re Prater · In re Hogan · In re Prater · Application of Joseph D. Fisher · In re Marzocchi
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]riginal claims constitute their own description.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“might include water-immiscible solvents is not sufficient indication to one of ordinary skill at that time that such medium was part of appellants' invention. On the contrary, a fair reading of the grandparent disclosure would have led one to conclude that the isomerization in water and water-miscible media was appellants' contribution. Accordingly, it is our view that appellants are not entitled to the benefit of their grandparent application.... 24 Id. at 823, 204 USPQ at 705 (citation omitted). 25 Our predecessor court reversed, citing the general rule that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[c]ertainly, the disclosure of specifics adds to the understanding one skilled in the art would glean from a generic term, but it does not follow that such added disclosure limits the meaning thereof.”
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.