 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1965
...because of the Federal patent laws a State may not, when the article is unpatented and uncopyrighted, prohibit the copying of the article itself or award damages for such copying. * * • The judgment below did both and in so doing gave Stiffel the equivalent of a patent monopoly... | |
 | Philip B. Kurland - Law - 1975 - 293 pages
..."because of the federal patent laws a State may not, when the article is unpatented and uncopyrighted, prohibit the copying of the article itself or award damages for such copying." a Indeed, the Court approved the operation of state law in precisely the circumstances its predecessor... | |
 | Jane K. Winn - Law - 2006 - 456 pages
...because of the federal patent laws a State may not, when the article is unpatented and uncopyrighted, prohibit the copying of the article itself or award damages for such copying."); Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc., .376 US 234, 238-39 (1964) ("That an article copied from... | |
 | Steven D. Anderman - Law - 2007
...because of the federal patent laws a State may not, when the article is unpatented and uncopyrighted, prohibit the copying of the article itself or award damages for such copying.' As the Second Circuit Court of Appeals remarked in another trade dress case, 'imitation is the lifeblood... | |
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But because of the federal patent laws a State may not, when the article is unpatented and uncopyrighted, prohibit the copying of the article itself or award damages for such copying. 