Pasqueau v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of tbe case. The following are the facts of tbe case as found, by the court: I. The claimant is a citizen of France, residing at Bordeaux, and engineer in chief of the French Corps de Fonts et Ohaus-sés, and the owner of the invention for an improvement in movable dams, which is appended to and forms a part of these findings. II. Ool.
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The Reporters' statement of tbe case. The following are the facts of tbe case as found, by the court: I. The claimant is a citizen of France, residing at Bordeaux, and engineer in chief of the French Corps de Fonts et Ohaus-sés, and the owner of the invention for an improvement in movable dams, which is appended to and forms a part of these findings. II. Ool. William F. Merrill, of the Corps of Engineers, was m 1874 and has been ever since the engineer officer in charge of the improvement of navigation of the Ohio below Pittsburg, exercising, subject to the approval of the Chief of Engineers,…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
This case has involved on both sides an immense amount of labor and expense. The evidence has been of the most costly kind, the testimony of experts, and the arguments of the most exhaustive character. The subject-matter of the suit is a patented invention, and the suit has been tried as if it were an action for infringement involving the validity of the patent. The state of the art, the history of the invention, the magnitude of the field of operations, the utility of the device, the saving which will accrue to the defendants, the benefits which have enured or may enure from the use of the…
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