Legal Opinion
Eastern Rotorcraft Corp. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided October 13, 1967No. 14-63PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDurfee, Judge
The Eastern Rotorcraft Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation owning the patent involved in this litigation, sues, under 28 U.S.C. § 1498, to recover the “reasonable and entire compensation” for the Government’s allegedly unauthorized use of its patented invention. Only the question of liability is now before the court.
The patent in suit is the Campbell Patent No. 2,705,461 entitled “Cargo Net Fabricated From Flexible Cable.” It discloses a cargo net that, when spread out, extends in a zigzag fashion and produces diamond-shaped parallelogram meshes throughout the body of the net. Ring or…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Mason v. HepburnCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1898
- William C. Elmore v. William F. SchmittCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1960
- Sinko Tool & Manufacturing Co. v. Automatic Devices Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1946
- John O. Paivinen v. Eugene A. SandsCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1965
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3Cited by18 opinions
- King Instrument Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Otari Corporation, Defendant-Appellee/cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1985
- Amp Incorporated v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1968
- General Electric Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1981
- F. Brantley Scott and John H. Burton v. Roy P. FinneyCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1994
- Slip Track Systems, Inc. And Todd A. Brady v. Metal-Lite, Inc., Thomas R. Herren, and Gene N. Carpenter, Defendants-CrossCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2002
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