Kean v. Wheelan

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority to the party Wheelan on three counts of an interference declared between applications for patents relating to photographic apparatus designed, according to statements in the briefs for both parties, to overcome camera shyness on the part of a person being photographed.

The counts read as follows:

1. In photographic apparatus permitting a person to be photographed with the camera hidden from view and permitting the said person to…