Legal Opinion
Dann v. Johnston
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 31, 1976No. 74-1033PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
Respondent has applied for a patent on what is described in his patent application as a “machine system for automatic record-keeping of bank checks and deposits.” The system permits a bank to furnish a customer with subtotals of various categories of transactions completed in connection with the customer’s single account, thus saving the customer the time and/or expense of conducting this bookkeeping himself. As respondent has noted, the “invention is being sold as a computer program to banks and to other data processing companies so that they can perform these data processing services for…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Hotchkiss v. GreenwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1851
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