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AKA Pseudonym
May 16, 2004

A dashing and sophisticated young man
Doctor Rope
Some bullshit about comic books. Some other bullshit about hotel records. And some more crap about pretrial detention or something. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Nobody cares Supreme Court. Get to the good stuff already.

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Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

UP YOUR NOSE OP!!!!

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
link a live stream please

Fishy Joe
Apr 19, 2005
Eat at Fishy Joe's
Scalia loves THE GHOST RIDER


VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Kempo Yellow Belt
Jan 5, 2012
Fun Shoe
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/22/us-usa-court-spiderman-idUSKBN0P21JE20150622

quote:

Justice Elena Kagan cited the line in explaining why the court, in a 6-3 ruling, had declined to overrule a legal precedent more than a half century old concerning patent royalties.

The court decided in favor of Walt Disney Co's Marvel Entertainment LLC in its legal fight with Stephen Kimble and an associate, Robert Grabb, over royalties on a web-shooting toy called the Spider-Man Web Blaster.

The court can overturn its own precedents, Kagan said.

"What we can decide, we can undecide," Kagan wrote, but added "we should exercise that authority sparingly."

Kagan then offered the oft-quoted cautionary line from Spider-Man lore in which the superhero is counseled that "in this world, with great power there must also come - great responsibility."

Kimble had asked the court to overrule the precedent, which said royalty payments generally do not need to be made after a patent has expired as is the case with the Spider-Man Web Blaster. Marvel, which has paid Kimble more than $6 million over the years to use the patent in the toy, had argued that the precedent set in a 1964 Supreme Court ruling should stand.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote a dissenting opinion noting that the 1964 decision should be overturned because it was "not based on anything that can plausibly be regarded as an interpretation of the Patent Act."

The ruling was "based instead on an economic theory - and one that has been debunked," Alito added.

Fellow conservative justices John Roberts and Clarence Thomas were the other dissenters.

Kimble obtained a patent for his web-shooting glove in 1991, later assigning it to Marvel in return for a royalty fee.

After Kimble in 2008 claimed breach of contract, Marvel argued that the 1964 Supreme Court ruling in the case Brulotte v. Thys Co involving a harvesting machine meant it would not be required to pay the royalties once the patent expired in 2010.

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
im black spider man

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

ha how's that for an extension of intellectual property rights disney

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
disney is cancer

Knight
Dec 23, 2000

SPACE-A-HOLIC
Taco Defender

Kempo Yellow Belt
Jan 5, 2012
Fun Shoe
I really wish we made it law that all supreme court cases must be televised.

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Isn't Spiderman black and gay now

Kempo Yellow Belt
Jan 5, 2012
Fun Shoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9prhPV2PI

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Angry Birds Suicide posted:

Isn't Spiderman black and gay now

dunno about black but he's always been gay

Kempo Yellow Belt
Jan 5, 2012
Fun Shoe

Blue Train posted:

dunno about black but he's always been gay

So is this an arranged gay marriage to Mickey Mouse that the supreme court just endorsed. I'm lost.

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the ol pump-n-bump
Jul 27, 2004

by Smythe
surpeme court rules that butt stuff is kinda gross

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