YALE LOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SARGENT (April 5, 1886)

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YALE LOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SARGENT
Term: 1885
Important Dates
Argued: March 12, 1886
Decided: April 5, 1886
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel BlatchfordJoseph BradleyStephen Johnson FieldHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanStanley MatthewsSamuel Freeman MillerMorrison WaiteWilliam Burnham Woods

YALE LOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SARGENT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1886. The case was argued before the court on March 12, 1886.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 117 U.S. 536
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Blatchford

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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