Ufer v. Williams

LENROOT, Associate' Judge.

This appeal brings before us for review a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office in an interference proceeding. Said decision affirmed a decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority of invention to appellee upon the two counts in issue, which counts read as follows:

“1. The process of manufacturing hydrogen from steam and a hydrocarbon which comprises passing a gaseous mixture of steam and a hydrocarbon at reacting temperature over a heated nickel catalyst including as a promoter a compound of a metal, the oxide of which is…