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BURNS v. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

No. 7049.

394 F.2d 416 (1968)

William E. BURNS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

May 8, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Fleet Cowden, Sudbury, Mass., for appellant. Kevin Hern, Boston, Mass., with whom Walter E. Graham, Melvin R. Jenney, Robert J. Horn, Jr., Joyce C. Jones, Cambridge, Mass., Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley & Ketchum and Kenway, Jenney & Hildreth, Boston Mass., were on brief, for Massachusetts Institute of Technology et al., appellees. Richard Wait, Boston, Mass., for Research Corporation, appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.

ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

This is a diversity action brought by plaintiff-appellant Burns in the district of Massachusetts against Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a number of its employees, hereinafter collectively MIT, and Research Corporation. It is conceded that Massachusetts law governs.

Plaintiff alleges that in 1943 he was negotiating with an agency of the United States known as NDRC with respect to certain secret ideas of his; that in 1944 he...

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