Fromson v. Advance Offset Plate, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 1565 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 37 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995), SRI International v. Matsushita Electric Corp. (1985)
20 federal appellate · 37 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. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Diamond Rubber Company of New York v. Consolidated Rubber Tire Company · Smith v. Snow · Autogiro Co. of America v. United States · Stratoflex, Inc. v. Aeroquip Corp. · Ssih Equipment Sa v. United States International Trade Commission
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is axiomatic that an inventor need not comprehend the scientific principles on which the practical effectiveness of his invention rests.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. A sensitized photographic plate comprising an aluminum sheet which has been treated to produce an aluminum oxide coating thereon, a water-insoluble, hydrophilic, organophobic layer on said sheet resulting from the reaction of the aluminum oxide coating and an alkali metal silicate applied to said coating, and a light-sensitive coating over said layer having one solubility in relation to a solvent in a state before exposure to light and another solubility in relation to said solvent in another state after exposure to light, said light-sensitive material being soluble in said solvent in one of said states and being insoluble in said solvent and in water, hydrophobic and organophilic in its other state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The issue of infringement raises at least two questions: (1) what is patented, and (2) has what is patented been made, used or sold by another. The first is a question of law; the second a question of fact.”
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.