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7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 36 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Hybritech Incorporated v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hybritech Incorporated v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc. Anchor | green | “formation in the inventor's mind of a definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention, as it is hereafter to be applied in practice.” | 7 |
| 2 | Arjun Singh v. Anthony J. Brake | green | “is complete only when the idea is so clearly defined in the inventor's mind that only ordinary skill would be necessary to reduce the invention to practice, without extensive research or experimentation.” | 7 |
| 3 | Checkpoint Systems, Inc. v. The United States International Trade Commission | green | “benefit of the knowledge of the invention” | 6 |
| 4 | Monsanto Company v. Mycogen Plant Science, Inc. And Agrigenetics, Inc., Defendants-Cross and Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Defendant-Cross | green | “from a date just prior to the other party's conception to ... the date of reduction to practice by the party first to conceive.” | 5 |
| 5 | In Re Scott T. Jolley | green | “it must be proven by evidence showing what the inventor has disclosed to others and what that disclosure means to one of ordinary skill in the art.” | 5 |
| 6 | Dr. Sakharam D. Mahurkar v. C.R. Bard, Inc., Davol Inc. And Bard Access Systems, Inc. | green | “the invention is suitable for its intended purpose.” | 4 |
| 7 | Checkpoint Systems, Inc. v. The United States International Trade Commission | green | “encourages prompt public disclosure of an invention by penalizing the unexcused delay or failure of a first inventor to share the 'benefit of the knowledge of the invention' with the public after the invention has been completed.” | 2 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.