Alfred Paul Murrah
How Judge Murrah rules, drawn from 1 signed order. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Murrah no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Murrah decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Mason, Murrah recognized validity for a particular arrangement of known mechanical elements while limiting the protected range to what the inventor actually added.
“The Court further finds that the Mason patent is limited in its scope of inventive genius to its relationship to the prior art”
Cautions
In Mason, Murrah declined to treat a different roller and cable arrangement as infringement merely because both devices measured wells.
“any device which accomplishes the same result by means of different mechanism is not an infringement.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“That none of the claims of the Mason patent, in suit, are infringed by the defendants or either of them.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No tenure-bounded docket record was available from which to describe caseload mix.
A historical record
Judge Murrah no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.