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'''Background:'''
'''Background:'''


Bonito Boats designed and manufactured a fiberglass boat hull, the Bonito Boat Model 5VBR, but did not issue a patent for the boat or its manufacturing process. After the boat hull was on the market for 6 years, FL Legislature passed a law which prohibited the use of direct molding to duplicate unpatented boat hulls, and forbid the knowing sale of such boat hulls. Bonito Boats then sued Thunder Craft under the accusation that they violated the FL law by duplicating the Bonito 5VBR and selling those duplicates.  
Bonito Boats designed and manufactured a fiberglass boat hull, the Bonito Boat Model 5VBR, but did not issue a patent for the boat or its manufacturing process. After the hull had been on the market for 6 years, the Florida Legislature passed a law prohibiting the use of direct molding to duplicate and knowingly sell unpatented boat hulls. Bonito Boats then sued Thunder Craft in a Florida Circuit Court under the charge that they violated the FL law by selling Bonito 5VBR direct molding duplicates.
      
      


'''Court Ruling:'''
The Florida Circuit Court ruled that the complaint be dismissed on the grounds that the Florida statute conflicted with Federal patent law, and was therefore unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause. [http://www.example.com link title]
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Revision as of 03:46, 27 January 2011

Background:

Bonito Boats designed and manufactured a fiberglass boat hull, the Bonito Boat Model 5VBR, but did not issue a patent for the boat or its manufacturing process. After the hull had been on the market for 6 years, the Florida Legislature passed a law prohibiting the use of direct molding to duplicate and knowingly sell unpatented boat hulls. Bonito Boats then sued Thunder Craft in a Florida Circuit Court under the charge that they violated the FL law by selling Bonito 5VBR direct molding duplicates.


Court Ruling: The Florida Circuit Court ruled that the complaint be dismissed on the grounds that the Florida statute conflicted with Federal patent law, and was therefore unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause. link title Argument:


Reasoning:

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