Bell Intercontinental Corporation v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “the ‘substantial right’ in a patent, the retention of which by the grantor will preclude a sale, ... [is] the right to exclude others from making, using or selling under the patent grant”
• “so long as [the transferee] lived up to the terms of its agreement, there was no way in which [the transferor] could recapture its patent or even manufacture for its own use without the consent of [the transferee].”
• “Nor is the question [of whether a transfer is a assignment or a license] governed by the method of payment, and it is, therefore, immaterial that payment is based on a percentage of sales or profits, or on an amount per unit manufactured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).