Legal Opinion
Conover v. Downs
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided October 4, 1929No. Patent Appeal 2129PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HATFIELD, Associate Judge.
This is an appeal, in an interference proceeding, from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents affirming the decision of the Board of Examiners in Chief which, in turn, had affirmed the decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority of invention to appellee, Charles R. Downs.
The invention in issue consists of “A process for removing the excess heat of reaction from a catalytic zone” and is defined in four counts. Count 4, which will serve to illustrate the process, reads as follows:
“4. The process of treating reacting gases which consists in…
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