Vietti v. Dow

Appellants have here appealed from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office which reversed the decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority of invention in the three counts involved to appellants, the junior party. The senior party, appellees, copied the three claims corresponding to the counts here involved from the inadvertently issued patent of appellants. No question of seniority is involved, and the only ques*1157tion presented is the right of the senior party, appellees, to make the claims corresponding to the counts at bar, all other issues of…