Tag: International

  • A Case Where Patent Law Meets International Commerce

    A Case Where Patent Law Meets International Commerce

    Tristan Reynolds

    Brown v. Duchesne (1857) Imagine you are in the 1850’s. A foreign ship docking in the United States port of Boston, its equipment bearing an improvement patented in the United States. Should the inventor have the right to enforce their patent against the ship’s owner for merely entering U.S. waters? That was the central issue… Read more