White v. Cottrell
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from a Decision of the Commissioner of Patents. Interference proceeding in the Patent Office between Joseph White and Charles P. Cottrell. Prom a decision granting him priority as to only part of the claims, White appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
White contends that he is entitled to priority over Cottrell in an interference relating to improvements in mechanism for feeding material in sheet form to a printing press. The issue originally involved 36 claims, 3 of which were awarded by the Commissioner to White, and the remainder to Cottrell. White appeals as to the claims denied him. Claims 1, 2, 9 and 36 are illustrative of the others.
1. “A sheet feeding mechanism for printing presses comprising endless means traveling in a partly circular and partly noneircular path for feeding the sheets to the press and devices…
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