Farrand Optical Co. v. United States

DAWSON, District Judge.

This is a motion by which the defendant seeks an order to dismiss the complaint on the grounds that (1) the eomplaint fails to state a cause of action and (2) that this Court lacks jurisdiction over the subject matter of the action; or, in the alternative, for summary judgment.

The motion raises primarily the issue as to whether an inventor whose patent application was directed to be kept secret, for purposes of national security, by the proper governmental officials and who alleges that he was damaged thereby and that thereafter the invention was used by the United…