Josef Fried, David Perlman, Richard W. Thoma, and Elwood O. Titus v. Herbert C. Murray, and Durey H. Peterson

MARTIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Patent Interferences of the United States Patent Office, awarding priority to the junior party, Murray et al., for an invention relating to a process for introducing oxygen into a steroid nucleus. Appellants, Fried et al., are involved in this interference on their application S.N. 296,256 filed June 28, 1952, and appellees, Murray et al., are involved on their Patent No. 2,649,402 issued August 18, 1953, on an application filed August 23, 1952.

Murray et al. offered no evidence but instead rely upon the disclosure of their…