DIAMOND, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS v. CHAKRABARTY (1980) - Ballotpedia

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DIAMOND, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS v. CHAKRABARTY

Term: 1979
Important Dates
Argued: March 17, 1980
Decided: June 16, 1980
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • Byron White

DIAMOND, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS v. CHAKRABARTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 16, 1980. The case was argued before the court on March 17, 1980.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 447 U.S. 303
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: Warren Burger

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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