In re Bass

with whom Almond, J., joins.

*1362On tlie basis of tbe Milbum case, which changed the effective date of. a U.S. patent from its issue date to its filing date, the principal opinion would change the effective date of all U.S. references to the unknown point in time when their subject matter was invented. On the basis of cases dealing with the rejection of a losing interference party’s claims over the lost counts, the principal opinion condones the rejection of one applicant’s claims over the contents of a patent where the parties’ cases had never been in interference and in fact could not be put…