Fischer v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
39 F. 613 · 1889
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
August 1915
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Garretson v. Clark · Dobson v. Hartford Carpet Co. · Black v. Thorne · Fischer v. Hayes
Most-quoted passages
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““Where a master reports that the profits of defendant derived from the infringement of plaintiff’s patent cannot be computed from the evidence, nominal damages only can be assessed, though it is apparent that there were profits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Decker v. Smith
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