Willis v. Town’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 892 · 1950
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Union Paper-Bag Machine Company v. Murphy · Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Ray-O-Vac Co. · Standard Oil Development Co. v. Marzall · Charles Peckat Mfg. Co. v. Jacobs
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Taking into consideration the presumption of validity which attends the grant of the patent, the age of the problem upon which Town was working, the reception which the patented device received from the public as evidenced by its commercial success, the conceded need for some such device, the inferences which may be drawn from the fact that the defendant imitated the device, Charles Peckat Mfg. Co. v. Jacobs, supra, at page 801 of 178 F.2d 794 , and that he obviously regarded such a device as patentable (as is indicated by his application for a patent on the accused device, filed in December, 1944), we think that the findings of the District Court that the patent in suit was valid and that Claim 1 was infringed, were not ‘clearly erroneous’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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