Farnham v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the findings of fact as found by the court: I. On March 17, 1896, the claimant in this case, 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 Letters Patent No.. 596656, dated January 4, 1898, which letters patent are made a part of the…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the findings of fact as found by the court: I. On March 17, 1896, the claimant in this case, 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 Letters Patent No.. 596656, dated January 4, 1898, which letters patent are made a part of the petition herein. The claims in the specification accompanying the claimant’s application for patent were as follows: 1.…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
This suit was brought to recover from the United States under an implied contract the sum of $1,000,417.56, which is allaged to be the net profits accruing from the use of a patented device granted to plaintiff, covering a period of 10 years from April 16, 1900, to June 30, 1910. The defendants deny the validity of the patent, as well as the existence of an implied contract in fact for the use of the device by the Post Office Department.
The first question to be considered is the validity of the patent granted by the United States Patent Office to plaintiff for a postage-stamp holder,-dated…
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