Wach v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.2d 113 · 1935
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1986
13 federal appellate · 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 31
Relies on Diamond Rubber Company of New York v. Consolidated Rubber Tire Company · Potts v. Creager · Paramount Publix Corporation v. American Tri-Ergon Corporation · Lucke v. Coe · In re Eastwood
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For almost a quarter of a century following the Parsons invention efforts were made by leading marine engineers of the world to connect the engine and turbine to the same propellor shaft, but without success. * * ' * * O * * "It thus appears that the .best marine engineers in the world, with unlimited means at their command, failed to solve the problem, the solution of which the tribunals of the Patent Office and the court below have ruled to be obvious to any one skilled in the art. ****** “Where, as here, the new device is also useful and marks a distinct and novel advance in the art, it should receive patent protection. For almost 25 years, as we have seen, patents have been granted in this art .on devices that proved to be practically worthless, and yet appellant has been refused a patent on his successful device because the Patent Office has found that, by taking this and that from the unsuccessful patents, the result achieved by appellant could have been accomplished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Coe“* * ' * * O * * "It thus appears that the .best marine engineers in the world, with unlimited means at their command, failed to solve the problem, the solution of which the tribunals of the Patent Office and the court below have ruled to be obvious to any one skilled in the art.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Coe““For almost a quarter of a century following the Parsons invention efforts were made by leading marine engineers of the world to connect the engine and turbine to the same propellor shaft, but without success.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Coe
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.