Coleman v. Dines’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 353 · 1985
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Hybritech Inc. v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc. (1986), Amgen, Inc. v. Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. (1991)
20 federal appellate · 19 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. § 116 · 35 U.S.C. § 120
Relies on Jones v. Howard · Field v. Knowles · 11 App. D.C. 264 - Mergenthaler v. Scudder · Stock Pot Restaurant, Inc. v. Stockpot, Inc.
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“formation in the mind of the inventor, of a definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention, as it is hereafter to be applied in practice.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party claiming [complete] conception must show possession of every feature recited in the counts and every limitation of the counts must be shown to have been known to the inventor at the time the invention is alleged to have been conceived.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conception must be proved by corroborating evidence which shows that the inventor disclosed to others his 'complete thought expressed in such clear terms as to enable those skilled in the art' to make the invention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.