Torsten Hasselstrom and Malcolm C. Henry v. Blaine C. McKusick

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Patent Interferences, one member dissenting, awarding priority of invention in Interference No. 90,025 to Mc-Kusick, the senior party. 1 Hasselstrom and Henry, the junior party, 2 have appealed.

The subject matter is a process for irradiating ammonium acetate for conversion to and recovery of amino acids as defined by the single count:

1. A process for converting ammonium acetate into amino acids which comprises, irradiating ammonium acetate with ionizing radiation equivalent to at least about one million electron volts until…