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CORTELYOU v. CHARLES ENEU JOHNSON & COMPANY (1907)
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| CORTELYOU v. CHARLES ENEU JOHNSON & COMPANY |
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| Term: 1907 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: October 31, 1907 |
| Decided: December 2, 1907 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 9-0 |
| Majority |
| David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White |
CORTELYOU v. CHARLES ENEU JOHNSON & COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 2, 1907. The case was argued before the court on October 31, 1907.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
- Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Seller or vendor
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 207 U.S. 196
- 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: David Josiah Brewer
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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