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restrictive license

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 305 U.S. 124 - General Talking Pictures Corporation v. Western Electric Co · 1938Most cited · 192 citing opinions

That a restrictive license is legal seems clear. The patentee may grant a license 'upon any condition the performance of which is reasonably within the reward which the patentee by the grant of the patent is entitled to secure.

How often courts cite the case defining “restrictive license”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “restrictive license” — 192 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.