Terry v. Webster

SMITH, Acting Associate Justice.

Joseph T. Terry, in October, 1914, applied to the Patent Office for letters patent to a process for the extraction of copper from its ores. On December 30, 1916, Martin E. Webster filed an application in which he prayed for a patent to substantially the same process as that applied for by Terry. Terry failed to prosecute his application for a patent for more than a year after notice of official action thereon, and in consequence his application stood abandoned by operation of law until it was shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Patents that his…