Legal Opinion
Townsend v. Smith
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided December 19, 1929No. Patent Appeal 2179PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRAHAM, Presiding Judge.
Harry P. Townsend, the appellant, presented his application to the Patent Office on January 13, 1922, praying that a patent might be issued to him on improvements in machines for cutting multiple threads on wood screws. On December 8, 1924, an interference proceeding was instituted and declared between his application and a patent issued to one Henry L. Smith, the appellee, No. 1,452,986, granted April 24, 1923, for a similar invention. The interference counts are seven in number, and are as follows:
“Count 1. An operating meehanism for a wood screw machine comprising a…
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