De Graffenried v. United States

ORDER COMPELLING DISCOVERY

SETO, Judge:

In this patent case, plaintiff, Albert L. de Graffenried, seeks compensation for the de*642fendant’s alleged unauthorized taking of property rights in U.S. Patent No. 3,217,568 (hereinafter the ’568 patent) entitled a “Device for Controlling the Deep Boring Operations in a Rotating Object,” issued to Mr. de Graffenried. Plaintiff asserts that certain machining tools used by the government to bore the barrels of huge Naval and Army artillery, infringe his patent 1.

Defendant moves for a court order to compel plaintiff to (1) answer questions posed during oral…