Legal Opinion
Kaplan v. Johnson
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided February 18, 1976No. 74 C 2004PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
LYNCH, District Judge.
The controversy in the instant case revolves around a patent issued to plaintiff as the result of an invention he conceived and reduced to practice in 1970. The pivotal question in the case is whether plaintiff should be allowed to retain the ownership rights in said patent or whether the ownership rights properly accrue to the United States of America. The controversy arose in the following fashion.
The plaintiff is employed by the United States Veterans Administration. He has been so employed as a medical doctor for 20 years. For 15 of those 20…
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