Watson v. Bladen’s Empirical Analysis
1826
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
September 2005
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
Most-quoted passages
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“If they [the jury] should be satisfied that the whole, or any of the essential parts and principles of the machine were invented by Martin, and introduced into the machine upon his suggestion, the whole patent is void”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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