Oliver v. Felbel
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents in an interference case. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: This is an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents in an interference case, wherein the subject-matter of controversy is an alleged improvement in type-writing machines, described in the following one issue in the cause: “ In a type-writing machine, the combination with type-operating mechanism and a power-driven…
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Hearing on an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents in an interference case. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: This is an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents in an interference case, wherein the subject-matter of controversy is an alleged improvement in type-writing machines, described in the following one issue in the cause: “ In a type-writing machine, the combination with type-operating mechanism and a power-driven carriage, of a tabulating mechanism including a series of denomination-keys and a series of independently-movable stops…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
In view of this condition of the record, we are not sure that we have jurisdiction to determine the issue in this case. The authority conferred on this court by the act creating it is, in reference to interference cases appealed to it from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents, to review the action of the Commissioner determining the right of priority of two or more persons claiming the same patentable invention. In the sense of the patent law there can be no interference unless there is patentable invention and there are rival claimants of it. Patentability of the invention or device…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Eugene F. Schwarzenbek and John Turkevich v. Bernard L. Evering, John R. Coley and William A. WilsonCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1966