Barba v. Brizzolara

This is a patent interference proceeding wherein the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office reversed a decision of the Examiner of Interferences which awarded priority of invention of the subject matter of counts 2 and 3 of the interference to appellant. The board awarded priority of invention to appellee, and from its decision this appeal was taken.

Count 2 is illustrative and reads as follows:

2. In apparatus for the conditioning and ductless distribution of air, the combination with a railway car having a relatively long and narrow, passenger compartment terminating short of the…