Wyeth v. Stone

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that one cannot patent the “art of cutting ice by means of any power, other than human power,” because it was “a claim for an art or principle in the abstract, and not for any particular method or machinery, by which ice can be cut”
• finding ineligible a claim to “the art of cutting ice by means of any power, other than human power”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Chargepoint, Inc. v. Semaconnect, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2019-03-28· cited 184×
• Sessions v. Romadka
  Supreme Court· 1892-04-25· cited 168×
• Interval Licensing LLC v. Aol, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2018-07-20· cited 122×
• Woodbridge v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1923-11-12· cited 75×
• Wheeler v. Farmer
  California Supreme Court· 1869-07-01· cited 32×
• Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen Idec
  Federal Circuit· 2011-08-31· cited 27×
• Epic IP LLC v. Backblaze, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 2018-11-26· cited 19×
• Kittle v. Hall
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York· 1887-01-03· cited 19×
• McLaughlin v. People's Railway Co.
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri· 1884-09-19· cited 17×
• Application of Zoltan TARCZYHORNOCH
  Customs and Patent Appeals· 1968-06-27· cited 16×
• Wilkins Shoe-Button Fastener Co. v. Webb
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio· 1898-10-04· cited 15×
• British Telecommunications PLC v. Iac/Interactive Corp
  D. Delaware· 2019-02-04· cited 9×
• Western Well Works, Inc. v. Layne & Bowler Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 1921-10-17· cited 5×
• First-Class Monitoring, LLC v. United Parcel Serv. of Am., Inc.
  E.D. Texas· 2019-07-22· cited 2×
• Lyman v. Maypole
  U.S. Circuit Court· 1884-02-11· cited 2×
• Rapid Service Store Ry. Co. v. Taylor
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan· 1887-08-03· cited 2×
• Squier v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  S.D. New York· 1924-09-03· cited 1×
• American Axle & Manufacturing v. Neapco Holdings LLC
  Federal Circuit· 2020-07-31