void claim
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 84 U.S. 463 - Carlton v. Bokee · 1873Most cited · 55 citing opinions
One void claim, however, does not vitiate the entire patent, if made by mistake or inadvertence and without any wilful default or intent to defraud or mislead the public.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “void claim” — 55 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.