TURNER & SEYMOUR MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. DOVER STAMPING COMPANY (1884) - Ballotpedia

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TURNER & SEYMOUR MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. DOVER STAMPING COMPANY

Term: 1883
Important Dates
Decided: April 14, 1884
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

TURNER & SEYMOUR MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. DOVER STAMPING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 14, 1884.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Connecticut U.S. Circuit for the District of Connecticut.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Manufacturer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 111 U.S. 319
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews

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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