Richard F. Dyer v. Frederick C. Field, Jr.

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

The sole issue raised by Dyer 1 in his appeal from the decision of the Board of Patent Interferences awarding priority of invention to Field 2 is whether, as the board held, Field is entitled under 35 U.S.C. § 120 to rely upon the 1954 filing date of his parent application to establish priority with respect to the subject matter of the single count:

1. A bulky yarn comprising a separate core yarn and separate excess yarn interwoven back and forth in said core yarn, said excess yarn at a number of random points extending through said core yarn and forming a multitude of…