Wise v. Hubbard’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 1 · 1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2011
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 115
Relies on In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Sessions v. Romadka · White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc. · Kennedy v. Hazelton · Sontag Chain Stores Co Limited v. National Nut Co of California
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the estoppel provision of Mass.Gen.Laws Ann. ch. 260 Sec. 12 is generally not available where the plaintiff is capable of discovering the facts allegedly concealed'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This statute creates no duty between the patent applicant and the purported inventor. Instead, because the Patent and Trademark Office’s interest is in rewarding the true inventor with the issuance of a letter patent, the sole duty created is between the applicant and the Office. Breach of this duty results in the patent being “unauthorized by law and void....” Kennedy v. Hazelton, 128 U.S. 667, 672 , 9 S.Ct. 202, 203 , 32 L.Ed. 576 (1888).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The United States Supreme Court has consistently held that the issuance of a patent and its recordation in the Patent Office constitutes notice to the world of its existence.”
1 later decision 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.