Legal Opinion
Brand v. Thomas
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided April 25, 1938No. Patent Appeals 3927PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLAND, Associate Judge.
The junior party, Samuel Brand, has appealed here 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 in four counts of an interference proceeding to the senior party, Felix Thomas.
The four counts of this interference were copied by Thomas from the Brand patent, No. 1,917,356, issued July 11, 1933, on an application filed September 9, 1929, for a cash register. The Thomas application, serial No. 676,237, is a renewal of an application filed November 22, 1923, for…
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