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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 56 U.S. 212 - Artemas Brooks v. John Fiske · 1853Most cited · 62 citing opinions

infringement rule

In view of this state of facts the rule is, that if a combination has, as here, three different known parts, and the result is proposed to be accomplished by the union of all the parts, arranged with reference to each other, the use of two of these parts only, combined with a third, which is substantially different in the manner of its arrangement and connection with the others, is not the same combination, and no infringement.

How often courts cite the case defining “Combination patent”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Combination patent” — 62 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.