{"id":1182,"date":"2009-11-28T19:07:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2009-11-28T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:09:11","slug":"graham-v-john-deere-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Graham v. John Deere &#8212; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graham v. John Deere<\/span> was decided in 1966 and for the first time since the passage of the 1952 Patent Act addressed the issue of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 103.\u00a0\u00a0 As noted in the previous post, the Court also heard oral argument for two companion cases, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Calmar v. Cook Chemical<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Colgate-Palmolive v. Cook Chemical<\/span>, on the same day that it heard oral argument for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graham v. John Deere<\/span>.\u00a0 Those cases also concerned the standard of obviousness.<\/p>\n<p>The counsel for the patentee spent a good deal of his allotted oral argument time describing the invention as follows: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/graham-v-john-deere-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The counsel for John Deere described the invention as follows: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/graham-v-john-deere-excerpt-21.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Counsel for John Deere addressed the obviousness factors here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/graham-v-john-deere-excerpt-3.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>I find the oral arguments of patent cases from the Supreme Court\u00a0\u00a0during the 1960&#8217;s particularly interesting in that some of the justices are very candid about not being able to understand patent claims.\u00a0 For example, Justice Black made these remarks: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/graham-v-john-deere-excerpt-42.mp3\">Listen<\/a>] and [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/graham-v-john-deere-excerpt-5.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0You can listen to the entire oral argument from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graham v. John Deere<\/span> here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Graham v John Deere.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].\u00a0\u00a0 I believe this is currently the only place on the internet where one can listen to this oral argument.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the opinion from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graham v. John Deere<\/span> here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&amp;court=US&amp;vol=383&amp;page=1\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham v. John Deere was decided in 1966 and for the first time since the passage of the 1952 Patent Act addressed the issue of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 103.\u00a0\u00a0 As noted in the previous post, the Court also heard oral argument for two companion cases, Calmar v. Cook Chemical and Colgate-Palmolive v. Cook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}