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· 8/14/1974

Mary Helen Sears v. Robert Gottschalk, Commissioner of Patents

Citations

  • 502 F.2d 122
  • 183 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 134
  • 1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 7219

How courts have described this case

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

  • FOIA; “If otherwise locatable, the rule in [the Fourth Circuit] is that equitable considerations of the costs, in time and money, of making records available for examination do not supply an excuse for non-production.”
  • affirming denial of injunction to produce patent applications

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Judges: Winter, Butzner, Field

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