The most common ploy : asking for upfront appraisal fees and then disappearing _ often with enough product information to make unpatented knock-offs.
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Under current law, companies that rely on unpatented trade secrets run the risk that someone else will patent their invention and charge them royalties.
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Edwin L . Wayman acquired ownership of patents on tools for use in enameling unpatented bathtubs, toilets, sinks, and similar unpatented products.
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Edwin L . Wayman acquired ownership of patents on tools for use in enameling unpatented bathtubs, toilets, sinks, and similar unpatented products.
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And an inevitable concomitant of the right to enjoin another from contributory infringement is the capacity to suppress competition in an unpatented article of commerce.
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As a result, the United States Government was able to reclaim the unpatented lands; however, title to patented lands remained in private hands.
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The legality of any attempt to bring unpatented goods within the protection of the patent is measured by the antitrust laws, not by the patent law.
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It also stressed that the pre-coated fabric, although unpatented, was not a staple but was specially adapted for use in practicing the patented process.
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[I ] t must be held that Minneapolis-Honeywell has been so using its patent as to tend to create a monopoly in an unpatented device.
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He then has, so far as the Sherman Act is concerned, no greater rights to price maintenance than the owner of an unpatented commodity would have.