Bain v. Hasselstrom

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Interference Examiners of the United States Patent Office, holding that the question of abandonment of an application alleged to exist on the part of appellees, is ancillary to the question of priority, and, upon finding that appellees had not abandoned it, awarding them priority.

A single count which originated in the Bain et al. application is involved. It reads:

The process of producing stabilized abietyl compounds which comprises heating abietyl compounds with up to about 10 percent of sulfur at a temperature above 200 degrees C.

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