Legal Opinion
Albert R. Martin v. Ferdy P. Mayer
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 30, 1987No. 87-1073PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Albert R. Martin appeals that part of the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (the “Board”) relating to priority of invention of count 6 of Interference No. 101,182, between Martin’s U.S. Patent No. 4,347,487 filed November 25, 1980, and appellee Ferdy P. Mayer’s patent application Serial No. 202,654 filed October 81,1980. Mayer is the senior party, having an effective filing date of March 12, 1979. The question on appeal is whether Mayer has the right, in terms of 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 1, to make the claim that is interference count 6.
Background
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