...June 25, 1910, made the Government liable by suits in the Court of Claims whenever an invention * * * covered by a patent of the United States shall hereafter...the owner thereof or lawful right to use the same. * * * "The duty of defending suits brought under this law devolved upon this bureau, and the litigation...

...consequently in 1918 Congress amended the act of June 25, 1910, and this is a quotation therefrom. That whenever an invention described in and covered by...patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by "or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to...

...the United States, the result would not be different, for, under the terms of the Act as amended " whenever an invention described in and covered by...patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to...

...Go ahead. Mr. NAULTY (reading): That whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent in the United States shall hereafter be used by the United States without license of the owner thereof or lease of the right to use the same, such owner may recover reasonable compensation for such use by...

...consequently in 1918 Congress amended the act of June 25, 1910, and this is a quotation therefrom. That whenever an invention described in and covered by...patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to...

...let us examine the language of the act as passed, to see what was expressed in the act. It says: That "whenever an invention described in and covered by...patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to...

...protection for owners of patents. To secure this end, in comprehensive terms the statute provides that whenever an invention described in and covered by...compensation for such use by suit in the Court of Claims.' That is to say. it adds to the right to sue the United States in the Court of Claims already conferred...

...patent cases has been enlarged by the Act of July 1, 1918, 40 Stat. 705 providing as follows: "That whenever an invention described in and covered by...patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to...

...section 8972, and it provides that — Suits in Court of Claims for use of invention by United States: Whenever an invention described in and covered by...patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof, or lawful right to...

...and the Congress had never consented to permit the Government to be sued on tort. That act provided : "Whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States shaU hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof...