Legal Opinion
Driscoll v. Cebalo
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 6, 1984No. Appeal Nos. 83-968, 83-654; Interference Nos. 97757, 98208PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACK R. MILLER, Circuit Judge.
These consolidated appeals under 35 U.S.C. § 141 (1976) arose out of two interferences in which the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Interferences (“board”) awarded priority to Patrick R. Driscoll (“Driscoll”) in Interference No. 98,-208 (one phantom count) and to Tony Céba-lo and Robert A. Walde (“Cébalo”) in Interference No. 97,757 (two counts). Both Cé-balo and Driscoll appeal from the awards of priority in the respective interferences; Driscoll also appeals from the board’s dismissal of the fraud issue (belatedly raised in his brief below) in…
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