UNITED STATES v. ADAMS et al. (1966)

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UNITED STATES v. ADAMS et al.
Term: 1965
Important Dates
Argued: October 14, 1965
Decided: February 21, 1966
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Byron White

UNITED STATES v. ADAMS et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1966. The case was argued before the court on October 14, 1965.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 383 U.S. 39
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Tom Clark

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.

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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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