PFAFF

v.

WELLS ELECTRONICS, INC.

Citator

Cited By

• Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83 (U.S. 1998)
  …d “standing” to raise their Fourth Amendment claims, the court went on to hold that Thielen’s observation constituted a search of the apartment under the Fourth Amendment, and that the search was unreasonable. Id., at 176-179. We granted certiorari, 523 U. S. 1003 (1998), and now reverse. The Minnesota courts analyzed whether respondents had a legitimate expectation of privacy under the rubric of “standing” doctrine, an analysis that this Court expressly rejected 20 years ago in Rakas. 439 U. S., at 139-140.…
• Pfaff v. Wells Elecs., Inc., 525 U.S. 55 (U.S. 1998)
  …t Industries, Inc. v. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 489 F. 2d 1359, 1365, n. 11 (CA7 1973), cert. denied, 417 U. S. 938 (1974), and because the text of § 102(b) makes no reference to “substantial completion” of an invention, we granted certiorari. 523 U. S. 1003 (1998). r-t í — Í The primary meaning of the word invention” m the Patent Act unquestionably refers to the inventor’s conception rather than to a physical embodiment of that idea. The statute does not contain any express requirement that an invent…