Becket v. Arness

The Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirmed the decision of the Examiner of Interferences in awarding priority of invention defined by the one count involved to William B. Arness, the appellee, and the appellant, Frederick M. Becket, has appealed here from its decision.

*1252The interference is between an application of Becket, filed August 14, 1934, which ripened into patent No. 2,056,766 on October 6, 1936, and an application of Arness filed November 28, 1936, seven weeks after the date of the Becket patent. Upon the filing dates, Arness was the junior party. He based his…