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A. BOURJOIS & COMPANY, INC. v. KATZEL (1923)

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A. BOURJOIS & COMPANY, INC. v. KATZEL
Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: January 18, 1923
Decided: January 29, 1923
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

A. BOURJOIS & COMPANY, INC. v. KATZEL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 29, 1923. The case was argued before the court on January 18, 1923.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: trademark
  • Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Seller or vendor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 260 U.S. 689
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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