Poulsen v. Coe

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia dismissing, after a hearing on the' merits, a bill in equity seeking, under Rev.Stat. § 4915, 35 U.S.C.A. § 63, an order authorizing the appellee Commissioner of Patents to issue to the appel*189lants Poulsen and Petersen a patent on their application for letters patent, Serial No. 563,447, filed December 17, 1931, with claims 49, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78 and 79. Claims 72, 73 and 74 are process claims; the others are claims for a machine, informally denominated a…