Flickinger v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• stating that patent, “[w]hile not precisely replicated in a single prior patent, and hence not in violation of 33 U.S.C. § 102, ... was clearly foreshadowed by the prior art ...” and hence was invalid for obviousness.
• police officer’s warrantless entry into residence excused by the need to seize counterfeit bills occupants were deliberately burning
• evidence of commercial success must be linked to the features of the invention to be considered
• clearly erroneous standard of review for exigent circumstances later overruled by United States v. McConney, 728 F.2d 1195 (9th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 824, 105 S.Ct. 101, 83 L.Ed.2d 46 (1984)
• exigent circumstances measured by totality of circumstances