Thompson v. Hamilton

- These are appeals from decisions of the Board of Interference Examiners of the United States Patent Office awarding priority to the party Hamilton, the senior party in both cases, upon counts relating to a drawer structure for type cases, the counts being claims which he copied for interference purposes from patents issued to the respective appellants during the pendency of his application in the Patent Office.

Hamilton’s application, serial No. S52,209, assigned to Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, ivas filed August 12,1940. It is the one involved in both interferences.

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