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    • Seymore, Sean B., 1971- (Minnesota Law Review, 2014)
      It is axiomatic in patent law that an invention must be useful. The utility requirement has been a part of the statutory scheme since the Patent Act of 1790. But what does it mean to be useful? The abstract and imprecise ...
    • Seymore, Sean B., 1971- (Minnesota Law Review, 2013)
      When the Framers of the United States Constitution granted Congress the authority to create a patent system, they certainty did not envision a patent as an a priori entitlement. As it stands now, anyone who files a patent ...