New Departure Manufacturing Co. v. Robinson

This is an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents dissolving an interference on the ground that the question of priority between the parties thereto, Robinson and Copeland, is res adjudicata because of a final decision in favor of Robinson in a prior interference. The issue is expressed in a single count, as follows:

“In a bicycle a wheel hub having a braking surface at one-side of its center, a driver at the opposite side of its center, a brake co-operating with said braking surface, a pivoted brake operating member angularly movable about its center in the di~ *506rection of…