Legal Opinion
Duffy v. Tegtmeyer
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided January 10, 1974No. Special Patent No. 182PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Judge.
This is a petition by Duffy, a party to interference No. 97,945 in the United States Patent Office, for a writ of mandamus to the Acting Commissioner of Patents to direct him “to apply Patent Office Rules 223, 225, and 231(a)(5) according to their express terms.”
The Acting Commissioner, Rene D. Tegtmeyer, and Barnes et al., the other party to the interference, oppose the petition on various grounds pertaining to our jurisdiction. They also say that even if we had jurisdiction we should not exercise it because what the Commissioner did was within his discretion and because it was…
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