In Re Graeme I. Bell, Leslie B. Rall and James P. Merryweather’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Regents of the University of California v. Lilly & Co. (1997), In re Dembiczak (1999)
1 federal appellate · 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 Vandygriff v. Phillips · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Lockheed Shipbuilding Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Madrid v. Lawyers Title Insurance · Amgen, Inc. v. Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What a reference teaches and whether it teaches toward or away from the claimed invention are questions of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he PTO's focus on Bell's method is misplaced. Bell does not claim a method. Bell claims compositions, and the issue is the obviousness of the claimed compositions, not of the method by which they are made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A prima facie case of obviousness is established when the teachings from the prior art itself would appear to have suggested the claimed subject matter to a person of ordinary skill in the art.”
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.