USA: Sheridan v. United States, United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 2015-5073, 8 October 2015
An inventor and holder of a patent for a “smokeless pipe” could not pursue a lawsuit against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims based on allegations that various private persons had infringed his patent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held. The inventor identified no law that permitted…