Specialty Composites v. Cabot Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 981 · 1988
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 44 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995), Renishaw PLC v. Marposs Societa' Per Azioni (1998)
20 federal appellate · 44 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. § 112
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Marino v. United States · Jizmejian v. United States · United States v. Adams
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a specification does not require a limitation, that limitation should not be read from the specification into the claims.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nondisclosed or false information is material if there is a substantial likelihood that a reasonable examiner would have considered the omitted reference or false information important in deciding whether to allow the application to issue as a patent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“claimed invention, rather than one in the public domain, is indicative of nonobviousness”
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.