In Henry IV, Glenmore brags that he can “call spirits from the vasty deep.” Hotspur replies:

Why, so can I, or so can any man;

But will they come when you do call for them?

In Blue Calypso, LLC v. Groupon Inc., No. 15-1396 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 1, 2016), Groupon tried to summon a prior art reference from the Internet. But it wouldn’t come. The Internet proved too vasty.
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