Visual Memory LLC v. NVIDIA Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.3d 1253 · 2017
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Berkheimer v. HP Inc. (2018), Aatrix Software, Inc. v. Green Shades Software, Inc. (2018)
9 federal appellate · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Erickson v. Pardus · Diamond v. Diehr · Hybritech Inc. v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc. · Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l · Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ome improvements in computer-related technology when appropriately claimed are undoubtedly not abstract, such as a chip architecture, an LED display, and the like. Nor do we think that claims directed to software, as opposed to hardware, are inherently abstract[.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“focus[ed] on a 'specific asserted improvement in computer capabilities'-the use of programmable operational characteristics that are configurable based on the type of processor”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a process that qualifies as an "abstract idea”
4 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.