Birmingham v. Randall

This is an appeal in an interference proceeding from the decision of the Board of Interference Examiners of the United States Patent Office awarding priority of invention of the single count in issue to Boardman M. Randall, appellee.

The interference involves an application of appellee, Randall, No. 468,010, filed December 5, 1942, and patent No. 2,348,740, issued to appellant, Donald Gr. Birmingham, on March 7,1944, on an application filed September 18,1940.

The count reads:

■The method of making fibrous web covered wood product which comprises superficially coating a broad face of a fibrous…