Huebel v. Bernard

The appeal in this case is from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents in an' interference case awarding priority to William Bernard of invention of an improvement in soap and sponge holders for attachment to bathtubs.

The issue of the controversy was thus defined in the Patent Office:

“1. As an article, of manufacture, a combined holder comprising a rectangular top frame which constitutes the *511upper open portion of the holder, a cross-wire secured to this frame for dividing it into sections, receptacles of different depths depending from each of these sections, the back of the deeper section…