In re Phipps’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 116 · 1946
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
March 1954
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Pickering v. McCullough · Western States Mach. Co. v. S. S. Hepworth Co. · In re Fridolph · In re Stover · In re Irmscher
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“A patent may have lain for years unheeded, as little a contribution to the sum of knowledge as though it had never existed, an idle gesture long since drifted into oblivion. Nevertheless, it will be as effective to invalidate a new patent, as though it had entered into the very life blood of the industry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Coey
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