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Is NASA Going to Write Boeing a Big Check?

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
April 9, 2009

Boeing wins royalty in patent case against NASA
“Boeing Co. may get hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation after winning a patent-infringement claim against NASA over an aluminum alloy used to build the space shuttle. Boeing developed a lighter structure for frames in the 1970s and 1980s to save on jet fuel costs. It claimed the technology was used in the external fuel tank that provides the backbone of the shuttle during launch and sued the government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington in 2000.”

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