Gearon v. United States

Defendant’s motion for summary judgment urges dismissal of the petition herein on the grounds that the patent on which the suit is based is void in view of a statutory bar. This will first be considered.

The petition alleges that one of the plaintiffs, James J. Gearon, was the inventor of inflatable, collapsible, military pontoon bridges for which he was issued letters patent No. 2,423,832 on July 15,1947, on an application filed by Gearon in the United States Patent Office December 21,1942.

As originally filed in this Court on April 20, 1953, the petition contained four counts. On May 20,…