CLIFT v. UNITED STATES

No. 565, Docket 78-6163.

597 F.2d 826 (1979)

Eugene Emerson CLIFT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Emerson Clift, pro se.

Bruce G. Forrest, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., and Ronald R. Glancz, App. Staff, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for appellee.

Before FRIENDLY, SMITH and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

Eugene Emerson Clift, plaintiff in this action to recover compensation from the United States under the Invention Secrecy Act, 35 U.S.C. §§ 181-88, is the inventor of a cryptographic system now the subject of U.S. Patent 3,495,038. He appeals from orders of the District Court for Connecticut which denied his motion under F.R.Civ.P. 37 to compel the production of documents requested under F.R.Civ.P. 34, largely on the basis of the...

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