Martin v. Friendly

HATFIELD, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal in an interference proceeding from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority of invention ¡as to all of the counts, Nos. 1 to- 13, inclusive, to appellee, Herbert M. Friendly. . •

The counts in issue were taken from appellant’s patent No. 1,640,551, issued August 30, 1927.

Counts 2 and 4 are illustrative. They read:

“2. In a telephone system, a subscriber’s line, a first selector, means including said first selector, a seeond selector, and a…