Allen v. Riley

Citations

• 203 U.S. 347
• 27 S. Ct. 95
• 51 L. Ed. 216
• 1906 U.S. LEXIS 1596

Syllabus

<p>While a State may not pass any law prohibiting the sale of patents for inventions or nullifying the laws of Congress regulating their transfer, it has the power, until Congress legislates on the subject, to make such reasonable regulations in regard to the transfer of patent rights as will protect its citizens from fraud; and a requirement in the laws of Kansas that before sale or barter of patent rights, an authenticated copy of the letters patent and the authority of the vendor to sell the right patented shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county within which the rights are sold is not an unreasonable regulation.</p>