Home Elevators, Inc. v. Millar Elevator Service Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2016
1 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
Relies on Yi Au Lau v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Hill v. Lockhart · 318 F. Supp. 1116 - Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. United States Plywood Corp. · Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. U. S. Plywood-Champion Papers Inc. · Panduit Corp. v. Stahlin Bros. Fibre Works
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] willfulness determination, that is, the defendant’s state of mind when it infringed the patent, is a finding of fact inextricably bound to the facts underlying the alleged infringement. In reaching a willfulness determination, a trial court weighs evidence of the totality of the surrounding circumstances in order to ascertain the infringer’s good faith or its willfulness. Factors considered include: the infringer’s deliberate copying of the ideas or designs of the inventor, the infringer’s knowledge of the in-venter’s patent rights, any good faith belief or invalidity or infringement formed by the infringer after an investigation of the inventor’s patent rights, and the infringer’s behavior as a litigant. Undoubtedly, because willfulness is determined from the totality of the circumstances it is the reason why some courts prefer to include the issue of willfulness with the liability phase of a bifurcated trial.”
1 later decision 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.