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3 unusual facts about Learned Hand


Biological patents in the United States

Judge Hand argued that natural substances when they are purified are more useful than the original natural substances.

National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications

National appealed the decision in 1951 to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, with famed Judge Learned Hand presiding.

The Cohens and Kellys

a copyright infringement case, in which Judge Learned Hand articulated the doctrine that copyright protection does not cover the characteristics of stock characters in a story.


Commission on National Goals

The other members of the Commission were Vice Chairman Frank Pace, Erwin D. Canham, James B. Conant, Colgate W. Darden, Jr., Crawford H. Greenewalt, Alfred M. Gruenther, Learned Hand, Clark Kerr, James R. Killian, Jr., William P. Bundy and George Meany.


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