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Priority Paradoxes In Patent Law, Richard H. Stern
Priority Paradoxes In Patent Law, Richard H. Stern
Vanderbilt Law Review
The constitutional provision governing patents gives Congress the power to promote the progress of useful arts "by securing for limited Times to... Inventors the exclusive Right to their... Discoveries. "'Because an "exclusive right" suggests an exclusive grant, the Patent Office interference proceeding has been created for the purpose of determining administratively the question of priority of rights between two or more parties claiming substantially the same invention. This article attempts to state in terms of an informal axiomatic system the rules of law for determining priority of invention, and then examine that system to explore its possible paradoxes Finally, an …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Antitrust Law--Restraint of Trade-Supreme Court Suggests A New Reading of Section 3 of the Clayton Act
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Civil Rights--Abatement and Revival--State Survival and Wrongful Death Statutes Adopted in Federal Civil Rights Act Suits
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Constitutional Law--Tenth Amendment-the Estate of A Veteran Dying Intestate Without Heirs May Constitutionally Escheat to the Federal Rather Than State Government
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Due Process of Law--A State May Deny An Applicant Admission to the Bar for Refusing To Answer Questions About His Advocacy of Subversive Organizations Or Objectives
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Federal Courts--State Security for Expenses Statute Inapplicable in Federal Equity Action Under Securities Exchange Act
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Federal …