MEURER STEEL BARREL CO.

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Tektronix, Inc. v. The United States, 552 F.2d 343 (Ct. Cl. 1977)
  …ical purposes, embraced the position of defendant, so it is unnecessary to discuss their individual views. . Even an established royalty may be modified upward, Meurer Steel Barrel Co. v. United States, 85 Ct.Cl. 554, 34 U.S.P.Q. 123, cert. denied, 302 U.S. 754, 58 S.Ct. 280, 82 L.Ed. 583 (1937), or downward, Fauber v. United States, 81 F.Supp. 218, 112 Ct.Cl. 302, 79 U.S.P.Q. 410 (1948), cert. denied, 337 U.S. 906, 69 S.Ct. 1048, 93 L.Ed. 1719 (1949), depending on the circumstances of the case. Where no e…
• Lockheed Aircraft Corp. v. The United States, 553 F.2d 69 (Cl. Ct. 1977)
  …quirement of clear and satisfactory proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Carboline Co. v. Mobil Oil Corp., 301 F.Supp. 141, 146, 163 USPQ 273, 278 (N.D.Ill.1969); Meurer Steel Barrel Co. v. United States, 74 Ct.Cl. 428, 13 USPQ 127 (1932), cert. denied, 302 U.S. 754, 58 S.Ct. 280, 82 L.Ed. 583 (1937); The Barbed Wire Patent, 143 U.S. 275, 284-5, 12 S.Ct. 443, 36 L.Ed. 154 (1892). Indeed, the oral testimony of witnesses, speaking only from memory in regard to past transactions has, in the absence of contemporan…
• Calhoun v. The United States, 453 F.2d 1385 (Ct. Cl. 1972)
  …her litigation expenses were not to be awarded “as such”, they could be considered in determining the “reasonable and entire compensation” directed by § 1498. He relied upon Meurer Steel Barrel Co. v. United States, 85 Ct.Cl. 554, 562, cert, denied, 302 U.S. 754, 58 S.Ct. 280, 82 L.Ed. 583 (1937) — which increased a royalty one-third over the commercial rate — but in that case the court thought that the “lesser royalty fixed by plaintiff was so fixed to avoid the expense of litigation and other factors invo…