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KIMBLE v. MARVEL ENTERPRISES, INC. (2015)

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KIMBLE v. MARVEL ENTERPRISES, INC.
Term: 2014
Important Dates
Argued: March 31, 2015
Decided: June 22, 2015
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor
Dissenting
Samuel Alito • John Roberts • Clarence Thomas

KIMBLE v. MARVEL ENTERPRISES, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 22, 2015. The case was argued before the court on March 31, 2015.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arizona U.S. District Court.

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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: Manufacturer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 576 U.S. 466
  • 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: Elena Kagan

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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