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KAPLAN v. JOHNSON

No. 74 C 2004.

409 F.Supp. 190 (1976)

Ervin KAPLAN, Plaintiff, v. Donald E. JOHNSON, or successor as Administrator of Veterans Affairs of the United States Veterans Administration and John J. Corcoran, as General Counsel for the United States Veterans Administration, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

February 18, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry M. Levy, Prangley, Dithmar, Vogel, Sandler & Stotland, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Samuel K. Skinner, U. S. Atty., Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, Ill., for defendants; Vito J. DiPieta, A. David Spevack, Neal C. Lawson, of counsel.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

LYNCH, District Judge.

The controversy in the instant case revolves around a patent issued to plaintiff as the result of an invention he conceived and reduced to practice in 1970. The pivotal question in the case is whether plaintiff should be allowed to retain the ownership rights in said patent or whether the ownership rights properly accrue to the United States of America. The controversy arose in the following fashion.

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