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GLOBAL-TECH APPLIANCES, INC., et al., PETITIONERS v. SEB S.A.

Term: 2010
Important Dates
Argued: February 23, 2011
Decided: May 31, 2011
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Anthony Kennedy

GLOBAL-TECH APPLIANCES, INC., et al., PETITIONERS v. SEB S.A. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 2011. The case was argued before the court on February 23, 2011.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York 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: 563 U.S. 754
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Alito

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.

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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