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· 8/3/2023

In Re Andrew Burke v. the State of Texas

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  • explaining that, in light of . §3 of the Clayton Act, A. B. Dick “must be regarded as overruled”
  • explaining that “the primary purpose” of the patent system is to promote scientific progress, not to “creat[e] . . . private fortunes for the owners of patents”
  • explaining that “the primary purpose” of the patent system is to promote scientific progress, not to “creat[e] . . . private fortunes for the owners of patents”
  • holding unlawful a patentee’s attempt to “under color of its patent ... derive its profit ... from the unpatented supplies with which [the patented product] is used”
  • holding unlawful a patentee’s attempt to “under color of its patent . . . derive its profit . . . from the unpatented supplies with which [the patented product] is used”
  • noting the “only effect of [inventor’s] patent is to restrain others from manufacturing, using or selling that which he has invented.”

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