Legal Opinion
Kooi v. DeWitt
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided December 23, 1976No. Patent Appeal No. 76-612PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LANE, Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Interferences (board), awarding priority of invention to the senior party DeWitt after finding that DeWitt had a right to make all counts involved iti the interference. We affirm.
*405 Background
This is a two-party interference proceeding (No. 98,572) between senior party DeWitt’s application serial No. 298,3111 for “Method for Forming a Transistor Comprising Layers of Silicon Dioxide and Silicon Nitride” and junior party Kooi’s patent No. 3,676,9212 for “Semiconductor Device Comprising an Insulated…
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