Legal Opinion
John O. Paivinen v. Eugene A. Sands
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 11, 1965No. Patent Appeal 7226PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
Appellee Sands, the senior party, obtained a patent 1 on August 5,1958, based on an application filed January 30, 1953. The present interference involves this patent and an application 2 filed by appellant Paivinen on February 4, 1959.
To establish priority of invention, Paivinen took testimony and introduced other evidence purporting to prove actual reduction to practice of the invention defined in the six interference counts prior to the filing date of the Sands patent. Sands did not attempt to prove an actual reduction to practice but relies upon his application as establishing…
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