Orthopedic Equipment Co. v. United States

This is apparently a major case, brought under 28 U.S.C. §1498 to recover reasonable and entire compensation for infringement of a patent covering a Business Order Control System and Apparatus. All three armed services are alleged infringers. Presumably, if defendant is liable, it will be so for substantial sums. Yet counsel have dropped other pursuits to bury this panel in interlocutory paper concerning defendant’s liability to pay the relatively minor sum of $1,181.25, under circumstances that will appear.

The issue presented in this motion for stay is whether witness deposition costs…