Meurer Steel Barrel Co. v. United States

This is a suit by the assignee of Letters Patent #891895 to recover from the Government under the provisions of the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 851, c. 423), as amended by the act of July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 705, c. 114), for the unauthorized use of the patent involved. The acts noted above read as follows:

"That whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States shall hereafter be used by the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use the same, such owner may recover reasonable compensation for such use by suit in the Court of…