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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy

§ 2184. Injunctions; measure of damages

Statutory text

No court shall have jurisdiction or power to stay, restrain, or otherwise enjoin the use of any invention or discovery by a patent licensee, to the extent that such use is licensed by section 2183(b) or 2183(e) of this title. If, in any action against such patent licensee, the court shall determine that the defendant is exercising such license, the measure of damages shall be the royalty fee determined pursuant to section 2187(c) of this title, together with such costs, interest, and reasonable attorney’s fees as may be fixed by the court. If no royalty fee has been determined, the court shall stay the proceeding until the royalty fee is determined pursuant to section 2187(c) of this title. If any such patent licensee shall fail to pay such royalty fee, the patentee may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction for such royalty fee, together with such costs, interest, and reasonable attorney’s fees as may be fixed by the court.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 83–724 · 68 Stat. 998

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 2184

    Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 154, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 946

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 154, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 946

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Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 1811(c)(3) of this title, prior to the general amendment and renumbering of act , by act .

Credits

1946–1992 · 2 acts
  1. 1946Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 154, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 946
  2. 1992renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), , 106 Stat. 2944.
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(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 154, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 946; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), , 106 Stat. 2944.)

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