Simon v. United States

The plaintiff, Emil J. Simon, was on January 8, 1918, granted Letters Patent No. 1253103 for an invention in spark gaps for the production of powerful electrical oscillations. This suit is for an alleged infringement of the patent by the Government, brought under the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 851), as amended by the act of July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 705).

To understand the natiire of the mechanical device for which novelty and utility are claimed reference must be made to the electrical circuits generally employed at the time of the advent of plaintiff’s patent, and the place it assumed in…