Crane v. Grier

This is an appeal by the senior party, Crane, from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming that of the Examiner of Interferences in awarding priority of invention to John A. Grier, as sole inventor, the said Grier being one of the alleged joint inventors (Grier and Warren), the junior parties. The counts involved are five in number and were claims taken from the Crane patent no. 1704655, issued on March 5, 1929, on an appli*1164cation filed March 17, 1927. The joint application of Grier and Warren was filed March 31, 1927. It will be seen that Crane is…