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Lear, Inc. v. Adkins


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Lear, Inc. v. Adkins, 395 U.S. 653 (1969), is a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the doctrine of licensee estoppel and holding that public interest considerations require that licensees be free to challenge the validity of possibly spurious patents under which they are licensed. This entailed the overruling of Automatic Radio Mfg. Co. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc., 339 U.S. 827 (1950) and prior cases that it had reaffirmed.

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United States Supreme Court

395 U.S. 653

LEAR, INC., Petitioner,  v.  John S. ADKINS.

 Argued: Nov. 20 and 21, 1968. --- Decided: June 16, 1969

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C. Russell Hale, Pasadena, Cal., for petitioner.

Lawrence G. Wallace, Washington, D.C., for the United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

Peter R. Cohen, Beverly Hills, Cal., for respondent.

Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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