Farnham v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. On March 17, 1896, the plaintiff, Frank G. Farnham, a citizen of the United States, filed an application in the United States Patent Office for letters patent for improvements in stamp holders, upon which application there were granted and issued to him United States Letters Patent No. 596656, dated January 4,1898, a copy of which letters patent, marked “ Exhibit A,” is…
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. On March 17, 1896, the plaintiff, Frank G. Farnham, a citizen of the United States, filed an application in the United States Patent Office for letters patent for improvements in stamp holders, upon which application there were granted and issued to him United States Letters Patent No. 596656, dated January 4,1898, a copy of which letters patent, marked “ Exhibit A,” is contained in a bound and indexed Exhibit Book, marked “ Frank Gunn Farnham v. United States — Defendants’ Book of Exhibits…
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, Judge
The plaintiff instituted an original suit in this court April 13, 1906, to recover royalties alleged.to be due upon an implied contract for the use of a patented article. On June 9, 1911, a second petition was filed covering the same subject matter and serving no other purpose than to extend the period of the first claim up to and including June 30, 1910. Subsequently the two cases were by proper order consolidated, heard together, and finally decided by this court on February 12, 1912. In an opinion going exhaustively into the case the petition was dismissed, the court resting its decision…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Farnham v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1913
- Farnham v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1912