Duncan v. Shelly’s Empirical Analysis
263 F. 639 · 1920
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
February 1932
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on 31 App. D.C. 619 - Howard v. Bowes · Brown v. Campbell · Hubbard v. Berg · Curtain Supply Co. v. National Lock Washer Co. · Gordon v. Wentworth
Most-quoted passages
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““It is the settled doctrine of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that when an inventor perfects and reduces to practice an invention, and fails for an unreasonable period to take steps to give it to the public, and until some one else has independently invented and patented it, the earlier inventor forfeits his rights to a patent as against the later inventor.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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