PARKER, ACTING COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS v. FLOOK (1978) - Ballotpedia

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PARKER, ACTING COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS v. FLOOK

Term: 1977
Important Dates
Argued: April 25, 1978
Decided: June 22, 1978
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
Warren Burger • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart

PARKER, ACTING COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS v. FLOOK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 22, 1978. The case was argued before the court on April 25, 1978.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patentability of computer processes
Petitioner: Patent Office, or Commissioner of, or Board of Appeals of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 437 U.S. 584
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Paul Stevens

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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