United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc.

Suit was brought by the United States in the District Court for Delaware to set aside sales made by it to the Chemical Foundation of a number patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other similar properties-4-which for brevity will be referred to as “patents” — seized pursuant to the Trading, with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, c. 106, 40 Stat. 411, as amended by the Act of March 28, 1918, c. 28, 40 Stat. 460, and the Act of November 4, 1918, c. 201, 40 Stat. 1020, and other Acts. The complaint alleges that a number of domestic manufacturers as a result of war conditions had been able to…