Higgins v. Keuffel

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{{Infobox SCOTUS case

|Litigants=Higgins v. Keuffel

|ArgueDateA=April 7

|ArgueDateB=8

|ArgueYear=1891

|DecideDate=May 11

|DecideYear=1891

|FullName=Higgins v. Keuffel

|USVol=140

|USPage=428

|ParallelCitations=11 S. Ct. 731; 35 L. Ed. 470

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|Subsequent=

|Holding=A label describing the contents of a container is not subject to copyright.

|Majority=Field

|JoinMajority=unanimous

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Higgins v. Keuffel, 140 U.S. 428 (1891), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held a label describing the contents of a container is not subject to copyright.{{ussc|name=Higgins v. Keuffel|link=|volume=140|page=428|pin=|year=1891}}.

The case has been read narrowly since it was decided. It applies to labels with "no artistic excellence."{{Cite book |last=Bracha |first=Oren |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ne2SDQAAQBAJ&q=%2522Charles%2520Sidney%2520O%27Brien%2522&pg=PA81 |title=Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790–1909 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-521-87766-4 |pages=75 |language=en}}