Interference
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 244 U.S. 1 - Thomas Ewing v. United States Ex Rel the Fowler Car Company · 1917Most cited · 28 citing opinions
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An interference [is] a proceeding instituted for the purpose of determining the question of priority of invention between two or more parties claiming the same patentable invention.
How often courts cite the case defining “Interference”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Interference” — 28 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.