Joseph Petisi and James Howard Boothe v. Hans H. Rennhard and Charles R. Stephens, Jr.

RICH, Acting Chief Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Patent Interferences awarding priority of invention to appellees Renn-hard et al., the senior party, in interference No. 92,332 between Petisi et al. application serial No. 65,584, filed October 28, 1960, for “New Tetracycline Compounds,” and Rennhard et al. application serial No. 847,867, filed October 22, 1959, the title of which does not appear in the record. 1

During the motion period appellants, Petisi et al., moved to shift the burden of proof on the basis of three prior filed applications, only one of which —…