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Patentable combination

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 220 U.S. 428 - Diamond Rubber Company of New York v. Consolidated Rubber Tire Company · 1911Most cited · 1,417 citing opinions

the elements of a combination may be all old. In making a combination the inventor has the whole field of mechanics to draw from.

How often courts cite the case defining “Patentable combination”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Patentable combination” — 1,417 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.