Wahl v. Wright
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Commissioner of Patents. Interference proceedings between John C. Wahl and Walter Wright. From a decision of the Commissioner of Patents awarding priority as to all counts in issue to Wright, Wahl appeals as to those counts found to read upon his machine. Reversed.
1Opinion of the Court
ROBB, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent Office in an interference proceeding awarding priority to the appellee Wright. The invention relates to mechanism for controlling the computations of a totalizer in a combined typewriting and computing machine. More specifically, as stated by the Examiner of Interferences:
“It comprehends two controlling means, one automatic and the other manual, a means whereby one of those is made operative and the other inoperative at will.”
The issue originally contained 19 counts. The Examiner of Interferences found that counts 10, 11,…
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