TEMCO ELECTRIC MOTOR COMPANY v. APCO MANUFACTURING COMPANY (1928)

TEMCO ELECTRIC MOTOR COMPANY v. APCO MANUFACTURING COMPANY
	Term: 1927
Important Dates
	Argued: October 18, 1927
	Decided: January 3, 1928
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

TEMCO ELECTRIC MOTOR COMPANY v. APCO MANUFACTURING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1928. The case was argued before the court on October 18, 1927.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Georgia Northern 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: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 275 U.S. 319
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Howard Taft

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 conservative.