State Industries, Inc. v. A.O. Smith Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that application must “adequately disclose” new matter added in a subsequent application to receive the benefit of the earlier filing date.
• observing that “[a] ‘patent pending’ notice gives one no knowledge whatsoever”
• “To willfully infringe a patent, the patent must exist and one must have knowledge of it.”
• “[T]he patent must exist and one must have knowledge of it.”
• describing the knowledge 21 requirement in the willful infringement context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).