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Woodbridge v. United States, 263 U.S. 50 (1923)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Woodbridge v. United States, 263 U.S. 50 (1923)
Woodbridge v. United States No. 51 Argued October 5, 8, 1923 Decided November 12, 1923 263 U.S. 50
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS
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1. Any practice of an inventor and applicant for patent through which he, deliberately and without excuse, postpones the beginning of the term of his monopoly, and thus puts off the free public enjoyment of the invention, is an evasion of the patent law and defeats its aim. P. 55.
2. An inventor of projectiles for rifled cannon having obtained allowance of a patent from the Patent Office, procured the papers to be filed in the secret archives on a statement that he wished this for one year only as an aid in obtaining patent rights abroad, and thereafter, for nearly ten years, deliberately abstained from requesting issuance of his patent in order to postpone the beginning of the patent monopoly until the needs of the government for the invention should render it of pecuniary value to himself. Held that he forfeited his right to the patent, within the meaning of the special act of Congress authorizing this suit, and therefore compensation could not be recovered from the government even if it used the invention within the period defined by that statute. Act of March 2, 1901, 31 Stat. 1788. Pp. 56, 59.
55 Ct.Clms. 234 affirmed.
Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims rejecting a claim preferred under a special act of Congress, for compensation for use by the government of an invention made by the plaintiffs’ decedent.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Woodbridge v. United States, 263 U.S. 50 (1923) in 263 U.S. 50 263 U.S. 51. Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MTCQMMJVV8ABD24.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Woodbridge v. United States, 263 U.S. 50 (1923), in 263 U.S. 50, page 263 U.S. 51. Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MTCQMMJVV8ABD24.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Woodbridge v. United States, 263 U.S. 50 (1923). cited in 1923, 263 U.S. 50, pp.263 U.S. 51. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MTCQMMJVV8ABD24.
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