Smalls v. Blueprint Development, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that “ ‘[ijgnorance of a fact, due to negligence, shall be equivalent to knowledge, in fixing the rights of the parties’ ”
• stating that “ ‘[n]otice sufficient to excite attention and put a party on inquiry shall be notice of everything to which it is afterwards found such inquiry might have led’ ”
• licensee may recover when the patent holder has induced the licensee to enter into the license agreement through fraud
• summary judgment proper where buyer did not act with due diligence when he had notice of the issue and failed to take any action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).