NATIONAL HAT POUNCING MACHINE COMPANY v. HEDDEN (1893) - Ballotpedia

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NATIONAL HAT POUNCING MACHINE COMPANY v. HEDDEN

Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: March 13, 1893
Decided: April 3, 1893
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras

NATIONAL HAT POUNCING MACHINE COMPANY v. HEDDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 3, 1893. The case was argued before the court on March 13, 1893.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Jersey U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New Jersey.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Defendant
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 148 U.S. 482
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: Henry Billings Brown

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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