thing patented
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 50 U.S. 109 - Wilson v. Simpson · 1850Most cited · 234 citing opinions
the invention or discovery, as held in "McClurg v. Kingsland," 1 How.
How often courts cite the case defining “thing patented”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “thing patented” — 231 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.