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decided by a jury. This remains a binding precedent currently.
*1870 - Fourth Patent Act required the use of patent claims in the nearly exact language used today: "particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement, or combination which he claims as his invention or discovery." The practice of dependent claims emerged afterwards.
*1890 - The Sherman Antitrust Act introduced some remedies to limit abuses of patent monopoly. The SCOTUS

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