Rubber-Tip Pencil Co. v. Howard
1874 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rubber-Tip Pencil Co. v. Howard, 87 U.S. (20 Wall.) 498 (1874), is an 1874 decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning the patent eligibility of abstract ideas.[1] As explained below in the Subsequent developments section, it is intermediate in the development of that aspect of patent law from Neilson v Harford,[2] through O'Reilly v. Morse,[3] to Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co.,[4] and then to Parker v. Flook,[5] Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc.,[6] and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l.[7]
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Full case name | Rubber-Tip Pencil Co. v. Howard |
Citations | 87 U.S. 498 (more) |
Case opinion | |
Majority | Waite, joined by unanimous |
The Rubber-Tip Pencil case has frequently been cited in the subsequent Supreme Court decisions concerning the patent eligibility of computer-related claimed inventions, such as Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank,[8] Diamond v. Diehr,[9] Parker v. Flook,[10] and Gottschalk v. Benson,[11]