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patentable process

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 277 U.S. 245 - Holland Furniture Co. v. Perkins Glue Co. · 1928Most cited · 338 citing opinions

A patentable process is a method of treatment of certain materials to produce a particular result or product.

How often courts cite the case defining “patentable process”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “patentable process” — 338 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.