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..... he deemed it for the public welfare, to grant licenses to american citizens or corporations to use any inventions covered by enemy-owned patents. subsection (c) of 7 of the act as amended november 4, 1918, authorized the seizure of enemy-owned patents, and provided that all property so acquired should be held and disposed of as provided by the ..... and the act of november 4, 1918, c. 201, 40 stat. 1020, and other acts. the complaint alleges that a number of ..... sales made by it to the chemical foundation of a number of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other similar properties -- which, for brevity, will be referred to as "patents" -- seized pursuant to the trading with the enemy act of october 6, 1917, c. 106, 40 stat. 411, as amended by the act of march 28, 1918, c. 28, 40 stat. 460, .....
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..... to apply the lands or the proceeds of their sale in effecting their reclamation by means of needed ditches, and that, before the patents were issued, the state, by an amendment to her constitution, had disabled herself from complying with that condition and proclaimed her purpose to apply the lands and their proceeds otherwise ..... consider here. the further contention is made that the state, before the issue of the patents, forfeited her right to receive them by disabling herself, through an amendment to her constitution, from complying with the provision in the act of 1850 directing that the lands passing to the state under the grant, or the proceeds ..... of any law page 270 u. s. 205 theretofore enacted) prior to the confirmation of title under the grant -- the confirmation being the issue of patent. many acts of that period granting lands in words importing a present grant -- where the lands were to be afterwards identified under prescribed directions -- contained provisions excluding lands .....
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..... this title, . . . prior to the filing of the application in this country, in which case no patent shall be granted in this country." r.s., 4887 ( 25, act of july 8, 1870, 16 stat. 201) as amended by 3, act of march 3, 1897, 29 stat. 693 and 1, act of march 3, 1903. 32 stat. 1225, 35 u.s.c. 32. [ footnote 6 ] wood ..... or decision of this case. [ footnote 1 ] judicial code, 155, 28 u.s.c. 261. [ footnote 2 ] act of june 25, 1910, 36 stat. 851, as amended by act of july 1, 1918, 40 stat. 705, 35 u.s.c. 68. [ footnote 3 ] "in any patent suit, it shall be competent for the parties to stipulate that the hearing in the first instance be ..... authorized to sue the united states in the court of claims. [ footnote 1 ] his amended complaint alleges a cause of action under the act of june 25, 1910, as amended, [ footnote 2 ] for the use and manufacture by or for the united states of a device covered by his patent no. 1,115,795 dated november 3, 1914, which describes means for the control .....
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..... was duly notified of the infringement, and continued, after such notice, to make, use, or vend the article so patented." this section derives verbatim from 38 of "an act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights," approved july 8, 1870, c. 230, 16 stat. 198, 203, and has remained in force without ..... must be reversed. the judgment of the district court is affirmed. reversed. [ footnote 1 ] the act of february 7, 1927, c. 67, 44 stat. 1058, amended 4900 r.s. by inserting " provided, however, that with respect to any patent issued prior to april 1, 1927, it shall be sufficient to give such notice in the form ..... thereof to damages sustained thereafter." under the interpretation which we accept, 4900 r.s. provides protection against deception by unmarked patented articles, and requires nothing unreasonable of patentees. by admission, the act of 1861 did not require a patentee who did not produce to give actual notice to an infringer before damages could .....
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..... and the suit proceeded to judgment against it. [ footnote 3 ] prior to the hohorst case, the lower federal courts seem to have been unanimous in assuming that the act of 1887, as amended, governed patent infringement litigation. see reinstadler v. reeves, 33 f. 308; miller-magee co. v. carpenter, 34 f. 433; halstead v. manning, bowman & co., 34 f. ..... the construction of these acts of 1887 and 1888, and there is great uncertainty throughout the country as to whether or not the act of 1887, as amended by the act of 1888, applied to patent cases at all." "the bill is intended to remove this uncertainty, and to ..... . the remarks of mr. mitchell, who reported the bill for the house committee on patents, are significant (29 cong.rec.1900-1901): "mr. speaker, the necessity for this law grows out of the acts of 1887 and 1888 which amended the judiciary act. conflicting decisions have been arisen in the different districts in the same states as to .....
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..... 17 (1987). yakima county persuaded the court of appeals, and urges upon us, that express authority for taxation of fee-patented land is found in 6 of the general allotment act, as amended.1 we have little doubt about the accuracy of that threshold assessment. our decision in goudy v. meath, 203 1 ..... as the court held in goudy v. meath, 203 u. s. 146 , 149, the indian general allotment act authorizes taxation of fee-patented land. this determination was explicitly confirmed in a 1906 amendment to the act, known as the burke act, which includes a proviso authorizing the secretary of the interior, "whenever ... satisfied that any [indian] allottee is ..... competent ... [,] to ... issu[e] to such allottee a patent in fee simple," and provides that "thereafter all restrictions as .....
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..... us to decide whether the federal circuit's jurisdiction is fixed with reference to the complaint as initially filed or whether an actual or constructive amendment to the complaint raising a patent-law claim can provide the foundation for the federal circuit's jurisdiction. 830 ing corp., 486 u. s. 800 , 808 (1988), ..... a)(1) does not itself use the term, but rather refers to jurisdiction under 1338, where it is well established that "arising under any act of congress relating to patents" invokes, specifically, the well-pleaded-complaint rule. it would be an unprecedented feat of interpretive necromancy to say that 1338(a)'s "arising ..... corp., 604 f.2d 179 (2d cir., 1979) [temporary emergency court of appeals properly has jurisdiction over issues, not claims, arising under the economic stabilization act]" (internal quotation marks omitted)). considerations of convenience to the parties and the courts support congress' decision to determine the federal circuit's appellate jurisdiction based on .....
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..... for assembly and use abroad. 406 u. s., at 532. focusing its attention on deepsouth , congress enacted 271(f). see patent law amendments act of 1984, 101, 98 stat. 3383; fisch & allen, the application of domestic patent law to exported software: 35 u. s. c. 271(f), 25 u. pa. j. int l econ. l. 557, 565 (2004) ( congress specifically ..... footnote 10 the federal circuit panel in this case, relying on that court s prior decision in eolas technologies inc. v. microsoft corp. , 399 f. 3d 1325 (2005), held that software qualifies as a component under 271(f). we are unable to determine, however, whether the federal circuit panels regarded as a component software in the abstract, ..... performed by a computer. brief for respondent 27 28; tr. of oral arg. 46. see also eolas technologies inc. v. microsoft corp. , 399 f. 3d 1325, 1339 (ca fed. 2005) ( [s]oftware code drives the functional nucleus of the finished computer product. (quoting imagexpo, l. l. c. v. microsoft corp. , 299 f. supp. 2d 550, 553 (ed .....
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..... mcpherson, in vi writings of thomas jefferson 181 182 (h. washington ed. 1861)). as the court has explained, congress agreed with jefferson that the courts should develop additional conditions for patentability. graham, 383 u. s., at 10. thus [a]lthough the patent act was amended, revised or codified some 50 times between 1790 and 1950, congress steered clear of adding statutory requirements of ..... ratify state street (or, as petitioners contend, the broadest possible reading of state street ). the act merely limited one potential effect of that decision: that businesses might suddenly find themselves liable for innocently using methods they assumed could not be patented. the act did not purport to amend the limitations in 101 on eligible subject matter. indeed, congress placed the statute in part iii .....
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..... 2004). we consequently describe four key features of the relevant drug-regulatory framework established by the drug price competition and patent term restoration act of 1984, 98stat. 1585, as amended. that act is commonly known as the hatch-waxman act. first, a drug manufacturer, wishing to market a new prescription drug, must submit a new drug application to the ..... presumably be shielded from discovery. second, the majority s position leads to absurd results. let s say in 2005, a patent holder sues a competitor for infringement and faces a counterclaim that its patent is invalid. the patent holder determines that the risk of losing on the question of validity is low, but after a year of ..... as amicus curiae 23 24 (citing ftc data indicating that some drugs have been subject to as many as sixteen first-day generic applications; that in 2005, the average number of first-day applications per drug was 11; and that between 2002 and 2008, the yearly average never dropped below three first-day .....
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