Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.3d 1347 · 2010
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 101
Relies on Diamond v. Diehr · Gottschalk v. Benson · Diamond v. Chakrabarty · Parker v. Flook · Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a useful and important clue, an investigative tool, for determining whether some claimed inventions are processes under § 101”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a patent claim is directed to statutory subject matter is a question of law that we review de novo .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the presence of mental steps [in a claim] does not detract from the patentability of [other] steps”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.