E.C. ATKINS & COMPANY v. MOORE, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS (1909)

E.C. ATKINS & COMPANY v. MOORE, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS
	Term: 1908
Important Dates
	Argued: January 22, 1909
	Decided: February 23, 1909
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
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

E.C. ATKINS & COMPANY v. MOORE, COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1909. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1909.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: trademark
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Patent Office, or Commissioner of, or Board of Appeals of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 212 U.S. 285
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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 liberal.