Volume 76
Private Law 87–297
To confer jurisdiction on the United States Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment on the claim of George Edward Barnhart against the United States.
Approved February 16, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To confer jurisdiction on the United States Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment on the claim of George Edward Barnhart against the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That jurisdiction is
George E. Barn-hart.
hereby conferred on the United States Court of Claims to hear, determine. and render judgment on the claim of George Edward Barnhart, of Altadena, California, against the United States for the unauthorized manufacture, use and/or sale by or for the United States since December 31, 1946, of inventions covered by the following enumerated patents of and owned by the said George Edward Barnhart: United States Letters Patents Numbered 1,854,444, 1,974,407, 2,005,965, 2,026,727, 2,026,728, 2,041,688, 2,070,705, 2,158,686.
Sec. 2.
All defenses of the United States based on laches, lapse of time, or any statute of limitations are hereby waived. Proceedings for the determination of such claims, appeals therefrom, and payment of any judgment thereon, shall be in the same manner as in cases over which such court has jurisdiction pursuant to section 1491 of title 28 of the United States Code. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as an admission of liability on the part of the United States.
Approved February 16, 1962.