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This document is a Supreme Court opinion regarding whether a United States patent expired when the corresponding British patent expired, based on the laws at the time the US patent was issued or whether a treaty preserved the patent term. The Court reviewed previous cases that established US patents were limited to expire at the same time as the foreign patent. However, the plaintiff argued a treaty superseded this rule. The Court examined the text of the treaty and previous cases interpreting the treaty

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