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FAULKNER v. GIBBS (1949)
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| FAULKNER v. GIBBS |
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| Term: 1949 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: October 12, 1949 |
| Decided: November 7, 1949 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 7-1 |
| Majority |
| Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson |
| Dissenting |
| Hugo Black |
FAULKNER v. GIBBS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 7, 1949. The case was argued before the court on October 12, 1949.
In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California California Southern U.S. District Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
- Petitioner: Manufacturer
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 338 U.S. 267
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown
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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