Saulnier v. United States

WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff, a citizen of France, sues for an alleged infringement of United States Letters Patent No. 2,125,752 issued to him on August 2, 1938, entitled “Removal Roof for the cockpits of aircraft.” The patent is on a canopy or roof over the top of the cockpit, which has the quality of being slid back and forth, while the plane is on the ground or in the air to permit ordinary egress and ingress, and the intake or shutting out of the air, and one which also has the quality of being completely and instantly disengaged from the aircraft by pulling a handle in the cockpit, when…