Arness v. Franks

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Interference Examiners of the United States Patent Office holding that the party Arness is not entitled to make the counts, three in number, involved in an interference, and awarding priority to the party Franks.

The interference was declared between an application of Arness, serial No. 215,061, filed June 21, 1938, and a patent, No. 2,120,554, issued to Franks June 14, 1938, on an application filed June 8, 1935.

It is alleged in the Arness application that it “is a division of my copending application 96,539, filed August 17, 1936 * * * which…