The Quest for a Meaningful Threshold of Invention: Atlantic Works v. Brady (1883)
Patently-O
MARCH 26, 2024
The Supreme Court ultimately reversed the lower court’s decision upholding the patent and found instead that Brady’s claimed invention lacked novelty and did not constitute a patentable advance over the prior art. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention.
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