Benjamin Phillips and Paul S. Starcher v. Arthur W. Carlson

MARTIN, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the-Patent Office Board of Patent Interferences awarding priority to the senior party, Carlson, of the single count involved in this appeal.

A patent, U.S.Patent No. 2,739,161, issued on March 20, 1956 to Carlson, the senior party, on an application filed December 16, 1954, containing a single claim, the count of this interference. It reads:

As a new composition of matter a compound of the structure

That compound has been referred to by the parties variously as bis- and di(2, 3 epoxycyclopentyl) ether and as bis- and di-(2, 3 epoxycyclopentenyl)…