Palmer v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
34 F. 336 · 1888
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
August 1905
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Pennsylvania Co v. Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Co · Birdsell v. Shaliol · Mowry v. Whitney · Moore v. Marsh · United States Rifle & Cartridge Co. v. Whitney Arms Co.
Most-quoted passages
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““The fact that, as soon as a patented improvement was made and introduced, its advantages over devices which had preceded became manifest at once, and it commended itself to the public as a practicable and desirable improvement, affords a safer criterion of inventive novelty than any subsequent opinion of an expert or intuition of a judge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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