first patented
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 157 U.S. 1 - Bate Refrigerating Co. v. Sulzberger · 1895Most cited · 260 citing opinions
patented in a foreign country at some time before the issuing a patent in the United States.
How often courts cite the case defining “first patented”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “first patented” — 260 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.