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Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8
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During the Industrial Revolution, the United States needed away to give authors and inventors rights to their work, so congress adopted a patent law for our constitution in 1790 with Thomas Jefferson being a big part of administrating the patent law.
Copyright
The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8
"Patents and Copyrights"
Cuno Engineering V. Automatic Devices Corp. (1941)
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
The District Court ruled the defendant, Mead, did not infringe on the plaintiff Morris' patent by adding a timer and thermostat to an automobile lighter he also didn't infringe on a wireless lighter created by the second plaintiff, Metzger.
The Circuit Court ruled Mead's addition did infringe on the original designs. The Supreme Court ruled that the Circuit Court was correct in ruling that Mead did infringe on previous patents because the addition did not involve a flash of genius and merely applied an art.
Patent
A government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, esp. the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
Works cited
Copyright 1999, 2009 Ladas & Parry - revised 7/17/2009
History of US Patent Law; http://www.ladas.com/
Cuno Engineering v. Automatic Devices Corp; http://copyright.laws.com/
The united States is the most economically and technologically advanced nation in the world and Patent and Trademark Office issues out over 180,000 patents a year