In re Katz’s Empirical Analysis
687 F.2d 450 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Invitrogen Corporation v. Biocrest Manufacturing Lp (2005), Quad Environmental Technologies Corporation v. Union Sanitary District Apt (1991)
5 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
Relies on Affiliated Ute Citizens of Utah v. United States · In re Land · Gaffney v. Cummings Et Al. · In re Facius · In re Schlittler
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person shall be entitled to a patent unless— ****** (b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person shall be entitled to a patent unless— (g) before the applicant’s invention thereof the invention was made, in this country by another who had not abandoned, suppressed, or concealed it.”
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.