Gearon v. United States

JONES, Chief Judge.

This is a patent case which is before the court on defendant’s motion to dismiss counts II, III, and IV of plaintiffs’ petition. The petition was filed April 20, 1953, under the provision of the patent laws of the United States now recodified as Title 28, Section 1498.

The petition alleges that one of the plaintiffs, J. J. Gearon, was the inventor of collapsible military pontoon bridges for which he was issued letters patent No. 2,423,832 on July 15, 1947, on an application filed in the United States Patent Office December 21, 1942.

Under count II of the petition plaintiffs…