Thompson v. United States

Madden, Judge,

delivered the opinon of the court:

The plaintiff sues the Government, under a special Act of Congress which is quoted in finding 1, for use of his two patents, one of which was a patent on apparatus, the other a patent on method. The special act had the effect of giving the plantiff the right to sue under the Act of July 1, 1918, 40 Stat. 704, 705, notwithstanding the lapse of time or the statute of limitations, which, but for the special act, would have barred the suit. The 1918 act provides:

* * * That whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United…