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CONTINENTAL PAPER BAG COMPANY v. EASTERN PAPER BAG COMPANY

Term: 1907
Important Dates
Argued: April 15, 1908
Decided: June 1, 1908
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

CONTINENTAL PAPER BAG COMPANY v. EASTERN PAPER BAG COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1908. The case was argued before the court on April 15, 1908.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maine U.S. Circuit for the District of Maine.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Manufacturer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 210 U.S. 405
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph McKenna

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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