patent tying
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 329 U.S. 637 - Transparent-Wrap Mach Corporation v. Stokes & Smith Co · 1947Most cited · 236 citing opinions
An owner of a patent may not condition a license so as to tie to the use of the patent the use of other materials, processes or devices which lie outside of the monopoly of the patent.
How often courts cite the case defining “patent tying”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “patent tying” — 236 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.