In re Applied Materials, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.3d 1289 · 2012
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he normal desire of scientists or artisans to improve upon what is already known provides the motivation to determine where in a disclosed set of percentages is the optimum combination of percentages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“NetStalker discloses not only a user defined severity level of a security breach but also triggering an alarm when a certain number of (security) events are recognized and blocking communications when the alarm is triggered. Based on the NetStalker reference, one of ordinary skill in the art would have known to characterize a security breach based on level of severity (i.e., user defined severity) and block communications based on when a condition has been achieved (for example, when a threshold number of security events have been encountered). Given NetStalker’s disclosure of blocking communications when a threshold criteria is met indicating a security breach and given that one of ordinary skill in the art is a person of ordinary creativity, not an automaton, one of skill in the art would have understood the practice of blocking communications when a security breach is detected, the security breach being of sufficient severity as to exceed a threshold. NetStalker further discloses that a severity level is assigned to security breach events thus further indicating that blocking communications when a severity level of security breach is identified would have been obvious (as assigning severity levels to security breaches were known to those of ordinary skill in the art), or at least obvious to try, as a matter of ordinary creativity and common sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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