Dawson v. Martin

This is an appeal in an interference proceeding wherein the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirmed a decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding to appellee priority of invention of the subject matter of counts 1 and 3 of said interference. Four counts were before the board upon appeal, but the board reversed the Examiner of Interferences with respect to counts 2 and 4 and awarded to appellant priority of the invention covered by said last named counts. Appellee took no appeal from said decision, so only counts 1 and 3 are before us; they read as follows:

1. In a…