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De Forest Radio v. GE: A Landmark Supreme Court Decision on the Invention Requirement

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By Dennis Crouch In 1931, the United States Supreme Court decided a landmark case on the patentability of inventions, De Forest Radio Co. The case involved a patent infringement suit over an improved vacuum tube used in radio communications. Background The patent at issue, U.S. 57, 111 (2011). 571 (1931).

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Inventorship Correction Affirmed for Patent on Intermodal Container for Transporting Gaseous Fluids

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The patent at issue, originally naming a single inventor (Steve Campbell), claims a lightweight intermodal container system for transporting refrigerated gaseous fluids. 256 to correct inventorship on an issued patent. Campbell filed a provisional application in 2011 and a non-provisional in 2012 that eventually issued in 2016.

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