Breese Burners, Inc. v. United States

This is a suit by plaintiff for compensation for the unlicensed use of its patent on an oil burner, and also of its patent on a “stove structure” containing a similar oil burner, with the modifications and attachments necessary to fit it into a regulation Army wood-burning stove, and with the modifications to prevent it from smoking, whether burning at extreme low or pilot heat, intermediate heat, or high heat.

In August 1942 the Army requested plaintiff to undertake to convert its wood- and coal-burning tent stoves into oil-burning stoves that would not emit smoke. By May of the following…