HOLZAPFEL'S COMPOSITIONS COMPANY v. RAHTJEN'S AMERICAN COMPOSITION COMPANY (1901) - Ballotpedia

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HOLZAPFEL'S COMPOSITIONS COMPANY v. RAHTJEN'S AMERICAN COMPOSITION COMPANY

Term: 1901
Important Dates
Argued: April 25, 1901
Decided: October 21, 1901
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Judgment of the court
Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

HOLZAPFEL'S COMPOSITIONS COMPANY v. RAHTJEN'S AMERICAN COMPOSITION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 21, 1901. The case was argued before the court on April 25, 1901.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: trademark
Petitioner: foreign (non-American) nongovernmental entity
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 183 U.S. 1
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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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