assignee
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 515 - Moore v. Marsh · 1868Most cited · 154 citing opinions
patent law
An assignee is one who holds, by a valid assignment in writing, the whole interest of a patent, or any undivided part of such whole interest, throughout the United States.
How often courts cite the case defining “assignee”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “assignee” — 154 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.