Legal Opinion
Piper v. Atomic Energy Commission
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided September 26, 1974No. Patent Appeal No. 9071PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Judge.
This is an appeal from the final order of the Patent Office Board of Patent Interferences in a proceeding to determine the right of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to have a patent issued to it instead of to the inventors or their as-signee, under section 152 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U. S.C. § 2182). The board held that the AEC was entitled to direct the Commissioner of Patents to issue the patent to it. We reverse.
Section 152 provides, in part, as follows:
Any invention or discovery, useful in the production or utilization of special nuclear material…
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