| Aronson v. Quick Point Pencil Co. | |
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| Decided February 28, 1979 | |
| Full case name | Aronson v. Quick Point Pencil Co. |
| Citations | 440 U.S. 257 ( more ) |
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| Federal patent law does not preempt state contract law so as to preclude enforcement of the contract. | |
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Aronson v. Quick Point Pencil Co., 440 U.S. 257 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that federal patent law does not preempt state contract law so as to preclude enforcement of the contract. [1]
The challenged law required the licensee of a patent-pending invention to pay a royalty to the inventor even if the patent was ultimately denied. The Supreme Court upheld the law because it did not cause anyone to decline to seek a patent or try to hide their disclosed inventions after the fact. [2]
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