Anne D. Nickola v. Kenneth Peterson, D/B/A Kaydee Products Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Because virtually every invention is an assembly of old elements,” especially stringent standards cannot apply to combination patents “without risk of destroying the patent system”
• “Unable to create from nothing, man must use old elements, which must perform their normal individual functions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).