Patent right
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 229 U.S. 1 - Bauer Cie v. James O'Donnell · 1913Most cited · 328 citing opinions
right to make, use, vend
The right to make, use, and sell an invented article is not derived from the patent law. This right existed before and without the passage of the law, and was always the right of an inventor. The act secured to the inventor the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the thing patented, and consequently to prevent others from exercising like privileges without the consent of the patentee.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Patent right”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Patent right” — 335 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 · 1810–1913
- ORIGINAL
It is the opinion of the court that the plaintiffs, by their own showing, are not legal assignees to maintain this action, in their own names, and that the judgment of the circuit court be arrested.
assignment must be of the whole right