Crosley Radio Corp. v. Dart

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The problem presented for solution by the appeal involves the interpretation of a written contract entered into by the parties to the present controversy, for the assignment of a patent application including the granting of an option to the purchaser for an exclusive license under other patents to be carved out of the parent application and to be made the subject of divisional applications. While no question of validity or infringement is here presented, decision nevertheless requires claim analysis and interpretation.

The inventor was the appellee, Dart. He had conceived…