Stewart v. Robinson

BlaND, Judge,

delivered .the opinion of the court:

In this appeal we review the action of the Board of Appeals of the-United States Patent Office, in reversing the decision of the examiner of interferences, and in awarding priority of invention in six counts, of an interference to the appellee, Robinson.

The subject matter of this interference is an attachment to a machine for the circular lmitting of stockings which have tapered high, splices. The tapered high splice is the familiar pointed dark area seen just above the heel on stockings. Prior to 1922 such reinforcements were commercially made…