Prindle v. Brown

This is an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents in an interference ju’oceeding involving priority of invention of a method of making divided lasts. There were three parties to the interference when declared, — Walter E. Trufant, Jonathan T. Brown, and Edwin J. Prindle.

The issue embraces three counts as follows:

“1. As an improvement in the art of forming lasts or last parts, the method which consists in forming a siirface other than' the foot-shape contour of the last or last part, such surface having a definite geometric relation to a surface having a useful function in the…