As v. Iancu’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.3d 1354 · 2018
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 143 · 35 U.S.C. § 318 · 5 U.S.C. § 704 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Bennett v. Spear · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · KSR International Co. v. Teleflex 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]qual treatment of claims and grounds for institution purposes has pervasive support in SAS .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interpret[ed] the statute to require a simple yes-or-no institution choice respecting a petition, embracing all challenges included in the petition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“announcing that any petition instituted would be instituted on all claims and all grounds raised. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Guidance on the Impact of SAS on AIA Trial Proceedings (Apr. 26, 2018), https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/patent-trial-and-appeal-board/trials/guidance-impact-sas-aia-trial. The Federal Circuit has also endorsed the view that SAS”
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.