In re Distefano’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.3d 845 · 2015
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on Dickinson v. Zurko · In re Gartside · Astrazeneca LP v. Apotex, Inc. · King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eon Labs, Inc. · In re Miller
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the printed matter is not functionally related to the substrate, the printed matter will not distinguish the invention from the prior art in terms of patentability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the claimed informational content has a functional or structural relationship to the substrate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if it claims the content of information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.