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6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 115 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 Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc., and Novopharm, Inc. And Novopharm, Ltd..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc., and Novopharm, Inc. And Novopharm, Ltd. Anchor | green | “conception 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.” | 44 |
| 2 | Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc., and Novopharm, Inc. And Novopharm, Ltd. | green | “when the inventor has a specific, settled idea, a particular solution to the problem at hand, not just a general goal or research plan he hopes to pursue.” | 25 |
| 3 | Ethicon, Inc. And Inbae Yoon, M.D. v. United States Surgical Corporation and Young Jae Choi | green | “one who simply provides the inventor with well-known principles or explains the state of the art without ever having 'a firm and definite idea' of the claimed combination as a whole does not qualify as a joint inventor.” | 20 |
| 4 | Ethicon, Inc. And Inbae Yoon, M.D. v. United States Surgical Corporation and Young Jae Choi | green | “one does not qualify as a joint inventor by merely assisting the actual inventor after conception of the claimed invention.” | 16 |
| 5 | Knorr v. Pearson | green | “sufficient circumstantial evidence of an independent nature can satisfy the corroboration rule.” | 8 |
| 6 | CardiAQ Valve Technologies, Inc. v. Neovasc Inc. | green | “not contemporaneously available to an ordinary skilled artisan” | 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.