technical fraud
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 382 U.S. 172 - Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food MacHinery & Chemical Corp. · 1965Most cited · 2,204 citing opinions
In the patent context, 'technical fraud' encompasses 'an honest mistake as to the effect of prior installation upon patentability'; such good faith constitutes a complete defense to an antitrust claim premised on fraudulent patent procurement.
How often courts cite the case defining “technical fraud”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “technical fraud” — 2,195 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.