Chapter 821. Referring to the Court of Claims the claim of William E
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CHAP. 821.— An Act Referring to the Court of Claims the claim of William E. Woodbridge for compensation for the use by the United States of his invention relating to projectiles, for which letters patent were ordered to issue to him March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. March 2, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,William K. Woodbridge.Claim of for use of certain invention referred to Court of Claims.
That the claim of William E. Woodbridge for compensation for the use of his alleged invention relating to projectiles for rifled cannon, for which letters patent were ordered to issue March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, by the United States Government, be, and the same is hereby, referred to the Court of Claims of the United States, which court is hereby vested with jurisdiction in the premises, and whose duty it shall be to hear and determine, according to its usual rules of procedure— Scope of hearing.First.
Whether the said Woodbridge was the original and first inventor of the said invention and entitled to a patent therefor. Second. Second. To what extent the said invention has been used by the United States Government, and what amount of compensation, if any, the said Woodbridge ought to receive, in equity and justice, from the United States Government for the past use of said invention. And in considering and determining the compensation to be made, if any, the said court shall, if it find that the said Woodbridge was the first and original inventor of said invention and entitled to a patent at the time of its order to issue, namely, March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, proceed and be guided in all respects as though the aforesaid letters patent had been actually issued for the term of seventeen years from the date of the aforesaid order to issue; the court to render judgment, irrespective of lapse of time, in favor of the claimant with the same effect, including right of appeal, as judgments generally of *Proviso*.—no laches, etc.said court: *Provided, however*, That the said court shall first be satisfied that the said Woodbridge did not forfeit, or abandon, his right to a patent, by publication delay, laches, or otherwise; and that the said patent was wrongly refused to be issued by the Patent Office.
Approved, March 2, 1901.