Chapter 128. Authorizing the Court of Claims of the United States to hear and determine the claim of Elwood Grissinger
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CHAP. 128.— An Act Authorizing the Court of Claims of the United States to hear and determine the claim of Elwood Grissinger. April 18, 1924.[[S. 1861](/us/bill/68/s/1861).][[Private, No. 15](/us/pvtl/68/15).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the. United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the United Elwood Grissinger.Claim of, referred to Court of Claims.States Court of Claims be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to hear and determine the claim of Elwood Grissinger for compensation for any unlawful sale by the United States, and any unlawful sale by others for the United States, either in the United States or elsewhere, for any use outside the United States and exclusive of any use by the United States, of certain long-distance telephone repeaters and of a system for the use of any repeaters on transmission lines, as disclosed and described in certain letters patent granted to said Grissinger by the United States, and also as disclosed and described in patents granted to him by certain foreign countries, and competent jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said court in this matter: *Provided*, That in any such suit the United States may *Proviso*.Defenses to be availed of.avail itself of any and all defenses, general or special, that might be pleaded by defendant in an action for infringement under the law in any jurisdiction where such sale occurred, or otherwise, at the date of such sale.
Approved, April 18, 1924.