Note 1174 — ARTICLE I (continued 5)
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Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Pet. 591, 660 (1834); Holmes v. Hurst, 174 U.S. 82 (1899). Cf. E. Burke Inlow, The Patent Clause (1950) Chaps. III and IV, for evidence of a judicial recognition of an inventor's inchoate right to have his invention patented.