LAN JEN CHU v. C. I. R.

No. 73-1132.

486 F.2d 696 (1973)

LAN JEN CHU and Grace Y. P. Chu, Appellees, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Estabrook, III, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, with whom Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ernest J. Brown, and Grant W. Wiprud, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for appellant.

Paul J. Foley, Washington, D. C., with whom Robert H. Rines and Rines & Rines, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellees.

Before McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges, and KILKENNY, Senior Circuit Judge.


McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

In this case we are faced with the question of whether the transfer by a taxpayer of a patent application to his controlled corporation may properly be considered the transfer of "property of a character which is subject to the allowance for depreciation" within the meaning of Internal Revenue Code § 1239(b), so as to treat the gain realized from such transaction as ordinary income rather than capital gain. Section 1239 provides in relevant...

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