Hoover Co. v. Coe

ARNOLD, Associate Justice.

Both parties to this suit claim that the sole issue involved is whether the patent claims set out in the complaint are supported by plaintiff’s application. One of these claims has been copied from another patent. Others are substantially the same as the claims in the second patent, yet all of them were formulated for the express purpose of provoking interference proceedings in the Patent Office. All were rejected on the sole ground that they did not read on the disclosure of plaintiff’s application. In substance this meant that the Patent Office did not consider the…