Ex parte Drawbaugh
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
This was a hearing on an ex parte motion made by the appellant in a case on appeal from the Commissioner of Patents, to preserve the files relative to the appeal in secrecy. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
We have in this case a motion made of rather a novel character. The appeal is from the Patent Office, and the appellant, upon filing the transcript of the papers pertaining to the appeal with the clerk of this court, has moved the court, by formal motion in writing, “that the files relating to the above appeal be preserved in secrecy, and that the clerk of this court be directed not to permit said files, nor any part thereof, to be inspected, nor any copy to be taken from said files, except upon request of the appellant or his attorneys, or upon special order of this court first obtained,…
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- Brewer v. WatsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
- Schmedding v. MayMichigan Supreme Court · 1891
- Uriah A. Boyden, in Error v. Edmund BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1853
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