Paulson v. Hyland

This i-s an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United-States -Patent Office in an-interference proceeding No. 73,561, .affirming a decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority of invention to the party Hyland with respect to all of the counts in issue, five in number.

The interference is between two applications of Hyland, one filed ■on October 8, 1928, and the other July 1, 1929, and an application •of Paulson filed on July 15,1929.

Paulson is the junior party and the burden was upon him to ■establish priority by a preponderance of evidence. It appears that…