Spindelfabrik Suessen-Schurr Stahlecker & Grill GmbH v. Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 1075 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company v. Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics Inc (1992), Amsted Industries Incorporated v. Buckeye Steel Castings Company (1994)
18 federal appellate · 5 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. § 154 · 35 U.S.C. § 284 · 35 U.S.C. § 285
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Bibby v. United States · Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · Darden v. Wainwright
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a patent license agreement is in essence nothing more than a promise by the licensor not to sue the licensee”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that a potential infringer having actual notice of another's patent rights has an affirmative duty of due care. That affirmative duty will normally entail the obtaining of competent legal advice before engaging in any potentially infringing activity or continuing such activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is clearly erroneous when, although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
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.