In Re Raymond C Grabiak et al’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2008
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
Relies on Bergel · In re May · In re Payne · In re Hoch · In re Wilder
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the case before us there must be adequate support in the prior art for the [prior art] ester/[claimed] thioester change in structure, in order to complete the PTO's prima facie case and shift the burden of going forward to the applicant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen chemical compounds have 'very close' structural similarities and similar utilities, without more a prima facie case may be made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Diane M Dillon
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.