Court Case
In 1976 the Decca Navigator Company of London sued the Unites States government over patent infringements, claiming that the Omega system was based on a proposed earlier Decca system known as DELRAC ̣– Decca Long Range Area Coverage, that had been disclosed to the US in 1954. Decca cited original US documents showing the Omega system was originally referred to as DELRAC/Omega. Decca won the case and was awarded $44,000,000 in damages. Decca had previously sued the US government for alleged patent infringements over the LORAN C system in 1967. Decca won its case, but as the navigation system was judged to be a military one, no damages were paid by the US.
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