BRUNETTE MACHINE WORKS, LTD. v. KOCKUM INDUSTRIES, INC. (1972) - Ballotpedia

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BRUNETTE MACHINE WORKS, LTD. v. KOCKUM INDUSTRIES, INC.

Term: 1971
Important Dates
Argued: March 23, 1972
Decided: June 7, 1972
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White

BRUNETTE MACHINE WORKS, LTD. v. KOCKUM INDUSTRIES, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 7, 1972. The case was argued before the court on March 23, 1972.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oregon U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: foreign (non-American) nongovernmental entity
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 406 U.S. 706
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: Thurgood Marshall

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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External links

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Footnotes

↑ 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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