Litigants: | Altvater v. Freeman |
Arguedate: | April 19 |
Argueyear: | 1943 |
Decidedate: | May 24 |
Decideyear: | 1943 |
Fullname: | Altvater v. Freeman |
Usvol: | 319 |
Uspage: | 359 |
Parallelcitations: | 63 S. Ct. 1115; 87 L. Ed. 1450; 1943 U.S. LEXIS 1252 |
Prior: | 135 F.2d 212 (8th Cir. 1943) |
Holding: | Although a licensee had maintained payments of royalties, a Declaratory Judgment Act claim of invalidity of the licensed patent still presented a justiciable case or controversy. |
Majority: | Douglas |
Dissent: | Frankfurter |
Joindissent: | Roberts |
Altvater v. Freeman, 319 U.S. 359 (1943), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that, although a licensee had maintained payments of royalties, a Declaratory Judgment Act claim of invalidity of the licensed patent still presented a justiciable case or controversy.