In re Recreative Technologies Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 1394 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2015
8 federal appellate · 4 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. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 303 (§ 1 of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980)
Relies on Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc. · Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Standard Havens Products, Inc. v. Gencor Industries, Inc. · Patlex Corp. v. Mossinghoff
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serious concern that reexamination not create new opportunities for abusive tactics and burdensome procedures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o grounds of reexamination were to be permitted other than on new prior art and sections 102 and 103”
2 later decisions 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.