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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 229 U.S. 1 - Bauer Cie v. James O'Donnell · 1913Most cited · 328 citing opinions

To vend is also a term readily understood and of no doubtful import. Its use in the statute secured to the inventor the exclusive right to transfer the title for a consideration to others. In each case to vend is to part with the thing for a consideration.

How often courts cite the case defining “vend”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “vend” — 328 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.