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DAWSON CHEMICAL CO. et al. v. ROHM & HAAS CO. (1980)

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DAWSON CHEMICAL CO. et al. v. ROHM & HAAS CO.
Term: 1979
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1980
Decided: June 27, 1980
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

DAWSON CHEMICAL CO. et al. v. ROHM & HAAS CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 27, 1980. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1980.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Chemical company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 448 U.S. 176
  • 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: Harry Blackmun

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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