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Microsoft Corp. v. Biscotti, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

878 F.3d 1052 · 2017

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
May 2024
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102

Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Lavender v. Kurn · Reckendorfer v. Faber · Connell v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Teva Pharm. United States, Inc. v. Sandoz, 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[C]ase law from the Supreme Court and this court has stated for decades that anticipation is a factual question.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[A]nticipation is not proven by 'multiple, distinct teachings that the artisan might somehow combine to achieve the claimed invention.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “Unexpired claims subject to inter partes review are to be given their 'broadest reasonable construction.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.