If this story about the Jerry Cans is true perhaps the British government can
form a class action lawsuit against the German bomb and airplane manufacturers
for wrongful death on behalf of all the civilians killed during the Blitz.
Rick
Jeanne Lacourse wrote:
> An interesting article in an old Look/Life etc mag about congress calling a
> Dupont? exec on the carpet for failing to reveal the formula for synthetic
> rubber developed in Germany with a license agreement to Dupont. All of a
> sudden, all kinds of cooperation.
>
> I had heard about this but had not given it any validity until I saw the
> article. We had lost most all of our sources for rubber to the Japanese at
> the begging of WW2.
>
> They should have let the exec sit in Levinworth (jail) for the duration...
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Antoine <antoine@usa.net>
> To: Henry & Kate Cubillan <cubillan@global.t-bird.edu>; Jim Rice
> <majrice@hotmail.com>
> Cc: <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>; <MVlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:03 PM
> Subject: RE: [MVlist] WW2 Patent Rights - was Jerry Can Funny Business
>
> During WW2, The US Government did not recognize as valid ANY
> patents from enemy Governments, as far as I know. Not only that,
> but the Patent Office was actively involved in procuring blue
> prints to whomever wanted them.
> However, it was a little less clear-cut in other cases involving
> foreign nations, whether neutral, friendly or occupied. I seem to
> recall some flub about the 40mm Bofors Gun blueprints brought
> (just before Pearl-Harbor) to the US Navy by the Dutch Naval
> Attaché, without checking with Bofors (Swedish firm who had
> developed the gun jointly with a Dutch company) I think
> eventually, the US Government paid a huge sum to Bofors and the
> Dutch company (Name not remembered) for the patent rights on the
> gun.
> for my 2-bits worth of trivia..
> Antoine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry & Kate Cubillan [mailto:cubillan@global.t-bird.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:23 AM
> To: Jim Rice
> Cc: mil-veh@uller.skylee.com; MVlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MVlist] Jerry Can funny business
>
> What's next, suing the US Government for kidnapping Dr. Von
> Braun?! :)
>
> Henry C.
>
> Jim Rice wrote:
>
> > >From: Douglas Greville <dgrev@ruralnet.net.au>
> > >
> > >The Court of First Instance of the Court of Justice of the
> European
> > >Community sitting in Luxemburg today ruled in favor of a
> German
> > >engineering company in a multi million dollar case against
> the
> > >British Government for illegal patent breaches dating back to
> 1942.
> >
> > Perhaps the Brits should sue for damages for the V weapons!!!!
> >
> >
> > Jim
> >
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