Boucher Inventions, Ltd. v. Sola Electric Co.
District Court, District of Columbia
1Opinion of the Court
RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.
The suit is to obtain letters patent, filed by Boucher1 pursuant to Rev.Stat. § 4915 (1878), 35 U.S.C. 63 (1934). The question is one of priority, which in turn rests on reduction to practice.
The invention eliminates the danger of burning out from short circuits in the secondary coils of transformers used in lighting electric neon lights or neon tubes. Sola conceived it early in 1933. His application was filed August 27, 1935, Bou-cher’s on September 20, 1935. The Commissioner of Patents declared an interference between Boucher as junior and *226Sola as senior party.…
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- Dowling v. JonesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1933
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