Case Name: ELECTRIC BOAT COMPANY v. UNITED STATES
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1924-01-28
Citations: 59 Ct. Cl. 954
Docket Number: 
Parties: ELECTRIC BOAT COMPANY v. UNITED STATES
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Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Volume: 59
Pages: 954–955

Head Matter:
ELECTRIC BOAT COMPANY v. UNITED STATES
[57 C. Cls. 497; 263 U. S. 621]
Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
Where the United States, without disclosure 'to it of the scope of an application for patent, obtained by a contract with the applicant a license, at certain rates, to manufacture and use the devices covered hy the application and was later sued by the licen-sor for its use of a device procured from another, which the licensor claimed came -within his application, and subsequent patent, held: (ft) That the Government was not estopped from and circumstances, tliat tile contract was not intended by the parties to apply to the device so used, and (6) that a judgment of the Court of Claims, so limiting the contract, upon facts found, was not erroneous as a matter of law.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Holmes
delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court January 28, 1924.