Jones v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 1524 · 1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 27 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably SRI International v. Matsushita Electric Corp. (1985), Hybritech Inc. v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc. (1986)
12 federal appellate · 27 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. § 282
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. · Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp.
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A patent shall be presumed valid. Each claim of a patent (whether in independent, dependent, or multiple dependent form) shall be presumed valid independently of the validity of other claims; dependent or multiple dependent claims shall be presumed valid even though dependent upon an invalid claim.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“A patent may not be obtained ... if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]ach claim must be considered as defining a separate invention.”
3 later decisions 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.