Legal Opinion
Tennessee Valley Authority v. Monsanto Chemical Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 19, 1967No. 22668PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEWIN, Circuit Judge:
At issue in this patent interference case is whether employee Driskell of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) or employee Jones of the Monsanto Company (Monsanto) 1 first invented a certain chemical process. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama awarded priority of invention to Monsanto, assignee of the Jones invention. TVA, assignee of the Driskell, invention perfected this appeal. We affirm.
Beginning in 1949, John C. Driskell, who headed a team of TVA research chemists working at TVA’s National Fertilizer Development Center at Muscle…
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