Shearer v. United States

This is a patent case now before this court for the determination of the amount of compensation to which the plain*212tiff Shearer is entitled. Plaintiff was in the employment of the United States at the time he made the inventions here in issue, and this case is before us under a special act of Congress (Private Number 285,71st Congress). The act waived the statute of limitations and instructed the court first to determine whether the plaintiff Shearer was the first, original and sole inventor of the inventions described in three Shearer patents pertaining to concrete revetment construction, and…