surrender
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 66 U.S. 273 - Moffitt v. Garr · 1861Most cited · 34 citing opinions
patent
A surrender of the patent to the Commissioner within the sense of the provision, means an act which, in judgment of law, extinguishes the patent. It is a legal cancellation of it, and hence can no more be the foundation for the assertion of a right after the surrender, than could an act of Congress which has been repealed.
How often courts cite the case defining “surrender”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “surrender” — 34 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.