Interval Licensing LLC v. AOL, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.3d 1335 · 2018
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 101
Relies on Gottschalk v. Benson · Julia Hotchkiss Executrix of John Hotchkiss Deceased John Davenport and John Quincy v. Miles Greenwood · Diamond v. Chakrabarty · Parker v. Flook · O'Reilly v. Morse
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a claim for an art or principle in the abstract, and not for any particular method or machinery, by which ice is to be cut.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nstead of claiming a solution for producing [a] result, the claim in effect encompasses all solutions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A principle, in the abstract, ... cannot be patented.... A patent is not good for an effect, or the result of a certain process, as that would prohibit all other persons from making the same thing by any means whatsoever.”
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.