If early judicial decisions were prejudiced against patentees, one might expect that subsequent courts—allegedly more supportive of patent rights—would reject the former legal precedents. Butpre-1830 cases have been cited as frequently as later decisions, and they continue to be citedtoday, suggesting that the early decisions ,many of which clearly declared that patent rights were a just recompense for inventive ingenuity , provided a lasting foundation for patent law.
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