Danilo Santini and George MacRedis v. Raymond A. Burgy, Walter A. Nikazy and Ernest B. Thurston

SMITH, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Patent Interferences awarding priority of invention of the subject matter of this interference 1 to Burgy et al., the senior party. In issue are eight counts copied from U. S. patent No. 2,840,189, granted to the junior party, Santini et al., on June 24, 1958 on an application filed April 15, 1957. The patent is assigned to Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Burgy et al., the senior party, filed their application, Ser. No. 619,575, on October 31, 1956. This application is assigned to Toledo Scale Corporation.

The invention in…