Automatic Electric Co. v. Dyson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Commissioner of Patents. Two separate interference proceedings between the Automatic Electric Company, as assignee of Herbert L. Fish, and Alfred H. Dyson. From decision awarding priority in the first proceedings to Dyson and in the second proceedings to Fish, the unsuccessful parties separately appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
ROBB, Associate Justice.
These are appeals from decisions of the Patent Office in two interference proceedings, in the first of which priority was awarded the junior party, Dyson, and in the second to the senior party, Fish.
The subject-matter of the first interference, No. 1493, is an improvement in automatic telephone systems and specifically concerns the arrangements for returning the switches to normal at the end of a conversation. There are three counts involved, but we do not deem it necessary to repeat them here.
Fish relies upon his filing date of December 22, 1905. As to Dyson, he was…
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