improvement patent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 329 U.S. 637 - Transparent-Wrap Mach Corporation v. Stokes & Smith Co · 1947Most cited · 236 citing opinions
An improvement patent, like the basic patent to which it relates, is a legalized monopoly for a limited period.
How often courts cite the case defining “improvement patent”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “improvement patent” — 236 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.