mechanical skill
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 704 - Saranac Automatic Mach Corporation v. Wirebounds Patents Co · 1931Most cited · 205 citing opinions
patent law
the display of the expected skill of the calling, and involves only the exercise of the ordinary faculties of reasoning upon the materials supplied by a special knowledge, and the facility of manipulation which results from its habitual and intelligent practice
How often courts cite the cases defining “mechanical skill”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “mechanical skill” — 266 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1869–1931
- ORIGINAL
the change with the existing knowledge in the art involved simply mechanical skill, which is not patentable.