Foster v. United States

Plaintiff brings this patent suit under 28 U.S.C. §1498 (1976 & Supp. Ill 1979) for infringement of an invention covered by allowed claims in three patent applications, and under 35 U.S.C. §183 (1976) for damages associated with the imposition by the Central Intelligence Agency (cia) of a secrecy order on the subject matter of those applications. The rights associated with the patent applications were originally co-owned by plaintiff, but were subsequently assigned to Zenith Radio Corporation (Zenith), and reassigned by Zenith to Itek Corporation (Itek) with certain reservations. Itek…