Button-Fastener case
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The Button-Fastener Case, Heaton-Peninsular Button-Fastener Co. v. Eureka Specialty Co.,[1] also known as the Peninsular Button-Fastener Case, was for a time a highly influential decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Many courts of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court in the A.B. Dick case[2] adopted its "inherency doctrine"—"the argument that, since the patentee may withhold his patent altogether from public use, he must logically and necessarily be permitted to impose any conditions which he chooses upon any use which he may allow of it."[3] In 1917, however, the Supreme Court expressly overruled the Button-Fastener Case and the A.B. Dick case, in the Motion Picture Patents case.
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Heaton-Peninsular Button-Fastener Co. v. Eureka Specialty Co. | |
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |
Full case name | Heaton-Peninsular Button-Fastener Co. v. Eureka Specialty Co. et al. |
Decided | October 12, 1896 |
Citation(s) | 77 F. 288; 1896 U.S. App. LEXIS 2241 |
Case history | |
Prior history | 65 F. 619, 1895 U.S. App. LEXIS 3022 (C.C.D. Mich. 1895) |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | William Howard Taft, Horace Harmon Lurton, Eli Shelby Hammond |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Lurton, joined by a unanimous panel |
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