ESTATE OF P. D. BECKWITH, INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF PATENT (1920)

ESTATE OF P. D. BECKWITH, INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF PATENT
	Term: 1919
Important Dates
	Argued: January 23, 1920
	Decided: April 19, 1920
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	James Clark McReynolds

ESTATE OF P. D. BECKWITH, INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF PATENT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 19, 1920. The case was argued before the court on January 23, 1920.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. 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: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Patent Office, or Commissioner of, or Board of Appeals of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 252 U.S. 538
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Hessin Clarke

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.