YALE LOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SARGENT (March 29, 1886)
YALE LOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SARGENT |
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Term: 1885 |
Important Dates |
Argued: March 15, 1886 |
Decided: March 29, 1886 |
Outcome |
Reversed |
Vote |
9-0 |
Majority |
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods |
YALE LOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SARGENT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 1886. The case was argued before the court on March 15, 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.
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. 373
- 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: Stanley Matthews
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 liberal.
See also
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