Stelma, Incorporated v. Bridge Electronics Co., Inc

The plaintiff on this appeal asks us to reverse the District Court for the District of New Jersey who denied the plaintiff a preliminary injunction. The injunction would forbid the defendants from making delivery to the United States Government under a contract of an article which is alleged to include a device patented by the plaintiff. The case turns, of course, upon 28 U.S.C. § 1498 which provides as follows:

“1498. Patent and copyright cases

“(a) Whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States is used or manufactured by or for the United States without…