Technical Development Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 733 · 1979
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2024
1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1498
Relies on United States v. Adams · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Mine Safety Appliances Co. v. United States · Technitrol, Inc. v. United States · Rel-Reeves, Inc. v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inventions made under a Government contract are the product of expenditures from the public treasury in the course of a governmental function; the public, having in a sense ordered and paid for the invention through its representatives, should not again be taxed for its use, nor excluded from its use nor permitted to use it upon restrictive conditions advantageous to no one but the patent owner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under such a liberal construction ... [t]he Government has the right to use, royalty-free, those inventions which have a “close and umbilical relationship” to the work and research funded by the United States and were crystallized during performance of the federal contract. If the invention is so tied to the work to be done under the contract as to contribute significantly to the results anticipated by that agreement, the Government is entitled to a license.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For example, where a patentee has been intimately involved in all phases of performance of a Government-funded contract during the performance of which the invention was conceived and/or first actually reduced to practice, and the work was, in fact, paid for in substantial part or entirely out of Government funds, the Government is entitled to a license.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.