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Curved Electrotype Plate Co. v. United States

United States Court of Claims

Decided April 26, 1915No. 21000PublishedCited by 9 opinions

The Reporter's statement of the case: By section 3758 Revised Statutes the Senate was given the power to elect a “ Congressional Printer.”

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The Reporter's statement of the case: By section 3758 Revised Statutes the Senate was given the power to elect a “ Congressional Printer.” That section was amended by the act of June 20,1874, 18 Stat. L., 88, providing that the previous act should cease and determine, and “ that the title of said officer shall hereafter be Public Printer,” and he shall be an officer of the United States, and said office shall be filled by appointment by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Section 3760, Revised Statutes, reads as follows: “ It shall be the duty of the Congressional…

1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, Chief Justice

Recovery is sought in this case on account of the use by the Government in its Public Printing Office of an alleged patented invention. Involving, as it does, a claim arising prior to the act of June 25, 1910, 36 Stat. L., 851, which confers certain jurisdiction on this court of suits for the recovery of compensation by the owner of an invention used by the Government, the questions here presented must be solved without reference to said act.

The plaintilf, the Curved Electrotype Plate Co. of New York, being the assignee of the alleged inventor, Patrick M. Furlong, bases its claim upon patent…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Schillinger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  2. Gill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  3. Holyoke Co. v. LymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
  4. United States v. Harvey Steel Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1905
  5. United States v. Berdan Fire-Arms Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1895

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1961
  2. Ray B. Woodbury v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
  3. Buffalo & Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1946
  4. Rankin v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1943
  5. Wright v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1938

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