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Supreme Court· 2/19/1923

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

Citations

  • 261 U.S. 24
  • 43 S. Ct. 254
  • 67 L. Ed. 516
  • 1923 U.S. LEXIS 2526

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)

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Judges: Taft

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Other cases named Crown Die & Tool Co. v. Nye Tool & MacHine Works

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