Weintraub v. Hewitt

This is an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents in an interference case involving priority in the matter of the invention of an improvement in gas, or vapor electric lighting apparatus.

Peter O. Hewitt and Nelson W. Rogers filed their joint application March 23, 1901. Ezechiel Weintraub’s application was filed February 26, 1902.

The issue contains twenty-five counts, of which it is sufficient to set out numbers 1, 23 and 24, as follows:

“1. In a gas or vapor apparatus, the combination of two working electrodes, a starting electrode, and means for connecting the starting…