Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Cities Service Gas Co. v. Mobil Oil Corp.
487 U.S. 1265
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1988-09-23
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- patent policy expressed in Lear does not abrogate doctrine of assignor estoppel
- “[i]f an assignee of a patent were allowed to challenge the patent, it would be placed in the legally awkward position of simultaneously attacking and defending the validity of the same patent”
Citator
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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari dismissed under this Court’s Rule 53.