Allen v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
64 F. 793 · 1894
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
May 1917
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Most-quoted passages
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““While Mr. Allen may not have known of this Shippen device, yet knowledge of it must be imputed to him, and, with this state of the art before him, he made application for the patent in controversy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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