A fact from Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 December 2008, and was viewed approximately 3,713 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sears v. Stiffel that companies can make and sell exact copies of other companies' inventions if they are not patented?
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This data is presumably unavailable but it would be an interesting addition to 'subsequent events' to show the sales of these pole lamps by Stiffel Co. on a year-by-year basis, before and after Sears (and presumably other manufacturers) started selling the copies, and alongside the Sears sales data. Tempshill (talk) 18:49, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
