Dow Chemical Co. v. Coe

STEPHENS, Associate Justice:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia dismissing the appellant’s action brought under Rev.Stat. § 4915 (1875), 35 U.S.C.A. § 63. The action sought to authorize the Commissioner of Patents to issue to the appellant a patent containing claims Nos. 22 to 34, inclusive, of application for patent Serial No. 44,252, filed October 9, 1935, by Edgar C. Britton and others, and thereafter assigned to the appellant.

The application relates to the preparation of alkyl halides by the direct addition of hydrogen…