FRASCH v. MOORE (1908)

FRASCH v. MOORE
	Term: 1908
Important Dates
	Argued: April 23, 1908
	Decided: October 19, 1908
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	6-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
	Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

FRASCH v. MOORE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 19, 1908. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1908.

In a 6-2 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: patent
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: 211 U.S. 1
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 conservative.