Walker Digital, LLC v. Facebook, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
15 district ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 35 U.S.C. § 271
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Erickson v. Pardus · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd · Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“collect[ ] damages related to indirect infringement for any pre-knowledge conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given the ease of amendment, the limitation of damages to post-knowledge conduct, and in the interests of judicial economy, the court finds that the better reasoning is to allow a complaint that satisfies Rule 8 to proceed to discovery rather than dismissing it for lack of prefiling knowledge when, by the time the motion to dismiss has been filed, defendant in fact has the requisite knowledge as pled by plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a patentee must show by clear and convincing evidence that the infringer acted despite an objectively high likelihood that its actions constituted infringement of a valid patent. The state of mind of the accused infringer is not relevant to this objective inquiry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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