[1169] "Inventive genius"—Justice Hunt in Reckendorfer v. Faber, 92 U.S. 347, 357 (1875); "Genius or invention"—Chief Justice Fuller in Smith v. Whitman Saddle Co., 148 U.S. 674, 681 (1893); "Intuitive genius"—Justice Brown in Potts v. Creager, 155 U.S. 597, 607 (1895); "Inventive genius"—Justice Stone in Concrete Appliances Co. v. Gomery, 269 U.S. 177, 185 (1925); "Inventive genius"—Justice Roberts in Mantle Lamp Co. v. Aluminum Co., 301 U.S. 544, 546 (1937); Justice Douglas in Cuno Corp. v. Automatic Devices Corp., 314 U.S. 84, 91 (1941); "the flash of creative genius, not merely the skill of the calling." See also [Note 2] above.

[1170] See [Note 7] above.

[1171] Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp., 340 U.S. 147 (1950); Mahn v. Harwood, 112 U.S. 354, 358 (1884).

[1172] Evans v. Eaton, 3 Wheat. 454, 512 (1818).

[1173] United States v. Duell, 172 U.S. 576, 586-589 (1899). See also Butterworth v. Hoe, 112 U.S. 50 (1884).

[1174] Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Pet. 591, 660 (1834); Holmes v. Hurst, 174 U.S. 82 (1899). Cf. E. Burke Inlow, The Patent Clause (1950) Chaps. III and IV, for evidence of a judicial recognition of an inventor's inchoate right to have his invention patented.

[1175] Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Pet. 591, 662 (1834); Evans v. Jordan, 9 Cr. 199 (1815).

[1176] Kalem Co. v. Harper Bros. 222 U.S. 55 (1911).

[1177] Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99, 105 (1880).

[1178] Stevens v. Gladding, 17 How. 447 (1855).