Crown Die & Tool Co. v. Nye Tool & MacHine Works

How courts have described this case

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• expressing concern when right to sue for infringement is “severed” from an interest in the patent title
• “All that the Government grants and protects is the power to exclude others from making, using or vending dining the grant.”
• interest in patent not a separable interest which can be assigned; instrument attempting to transfer the statutory cause of action in this manner is ineffective
• the right to sue “carried no part of the title to the patent or interest in it”
• “[T]he injury inflicted by an act of infringement falls upon the individual who owns the monopoly at the date of the infringement.”
• “[T]he injury inflicted by an act of infringement falls upon the individual who owns the monopoly at the date of the infringement.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).