Sherman v. Johnson

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, which awarded priority of invention defined by the single count of the interference to the appellee Johnson. Jolmson, the senior party, copied claim No. 8 of Sherman patent *871No. 2,071,364 into his application filed January 12, 1929. The application of the Sherman patent was filed April 16,1930, and the patent issued February 23, 1937.

No testimony was taken by either party and Sherman, being-under order to show cause why judgment on the record should not be entered against him, moved to dissolve the…