United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Ethicon, Inc. v. United States Surgical Corp. (1998), PerSeptive Biosystems, Inc. v. Pharmacia Biotech, Inc. (2000)
5 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
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 Litton Industrial Products, Inc. v. Solid State Systems Corp. · Intellicall, Inc. v. Phonometrics, Inc. · Kennedy v. Hazelton · Atari, Inc. v. JS & A Group, Inc. · Petromanagement Corporation v. Acme-Thomas Joint Venture
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inventorship is a question of who actually invented the subject matter claimed in a patent.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a proceeding which the [USPTO] Board conducts to determine questions of priority, i.e., who was the first to invent the common subject matter claimed in two or more applications or in one or more applications and an issued patent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]eversal is required if the district court `engaged in a faulty legal analysis in applying the law to the facts and a correct application of the law to those facts might bring a different result.'”
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.