Case ID: us-ct-cl_54/html/0195-02.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Clarke", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DAVID F. MOORE v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [Not reported in C. Cls. R.; 249 U. S., 487.]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the defendants in the court below. On appeal the. judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    The act of June 25, 1910, chapter 423, 36 Statutes, 851, allowing compensation from the United States for use of patented inventions, provides that it shall not apply to any device discovered or invented by a Government employee “during the time of bis employment or service ”: Helé, that this prevents recovery where the invention was completed during such service although in the hours when the inventor was not actually on duty.
   Mr. Justice Clarke

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court April 14, 1919.