RCA Corp. v. Data General Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2007
2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1338 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 282
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Raphan v. United States · Lear, Inc. v. Adkins · Soto v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“system, 6 was designed primarily by RCA engineer Walter Helbig of RCA's Data Systems Division in Van Nuys, California. 11 As an initial matter, we address RCA's challenge to the district court's finding that RCA's proposal to FAA offered the Cole invention. RCA argues that the proposal was for the different, more complex RTGV system, which literally is correct. However, for reasons given below, that fact does not preclude a finding that the Cole invention was being impermissibly commercialized by the offer of the more complex system. 12 The district court correctly found that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was never disavowed. As further support the district court noted that in the HLA litigation, Helbig testified that RCA intended, if awarded a purchase contract to supply the RTGV systems, to use the Cole invention in the equipment supplied to FAA. Id. at 467, 8 USPQ2d at 1314. The above testimonial evidence could well be sufficient in itself to establish that the Cole invention was being offered to the FAA. 13 RCA discounts the above testimonial evidence and argues that DGC had to show that the Cole patent claims”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the challenger has the burden of proving that there was a definite sale or offer to sell more than one year before the application for the subject patent, and that the subject matter of the sale or offer to sell fully anticipated the claimed invention or would have rendered the claimed invention obvious by its addition to the prior art. Cf. D.L. Auld [v. Chroma Graphics Corp.], 714 F.2d [1144] at 1150, 219 USPQ at 17 (102(b) only).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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