Guettler v. Alfsen

VAN ORSDER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal in an interference proceeding from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents awarding priority of invention to the junior party Alísen. Appellant Guettler filed his application June 4, 1915, and Alísen filed September 9, 1915.

It is unnecessary to consider the invention in issue, since the case can be disposed of upon a single question of law. The tribunals below awarded Alísen priority upon a Norwegian application, filed February 16, 1915. The only evidence of the existence of the alleged application, consists in a specification and drawing to…