Richard J. Clauss and Henry Brown v. Donald Gardner Foulke, Otto Kardos and Herman Koretzky

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

Clauss and Brown 1 appeal from the decision of the Board of Patent Inter ferences awarding priority of invention to the senior party, Foulke, Kardos and Koretzky, 2 of a process for producing bright nickel deposits from an electroplating bath, as reflected in the only count:

1. The process for producing bright nickel deposits which comprises electrodepositing nickel from an aqueous solution of at least one nickel salt characterized in that there is dissolved in the nickel plating bath at least about 1 millimole per liter of a compound of the formula

Rl-0-CH2-C E= C-CH2-O-R2…