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In Re Leo M Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
November 2020
most recently cited

16 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Solarex Corp. v. Arco Solar, Inc. (1988), 658 F. Supp. 998 - Friction Division Products, Inc. v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. (1987)

16 district ·

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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 In re Wyer · In Re John a Donohue · In re Bayer

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent, or (b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States[.]”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “In re Wyer, 655 F.2d 221, 226 , 210 USPQ 790, 794 (CCPA 1981). 12”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[t]he proponent of the publication bar must show that prior to the critical date the reference was sufficiently accessible, at least to, the public interested in the art, so that such a one by examining the reference could make the claimed invention without further research or experimentation.”
    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.