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PRECISION INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING CO. et al. v. AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE MACHINERY CO. (1945)

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PRECISION INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING CO. et al. v. AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE MACHINERY CO.
Term: 1944
Important Dates
Argued: January 31, 1945
Decided: April 23, 1945
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Robert Jackson • Owen Josephus Roberts

PRECISION INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING CO. et al. v. AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE MACHINERY CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 1945. The case was argued before the court on January 31, 1945.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 324 U.S. 806
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Frank Murphy

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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