Katzman v. Georgiev

PATTERSON, District Judge.

The application is for an order compelling the respondents, witnesses in an interference proceeding pending in the Patent Office, to answer certain questions put to them.

The Commissioner of Patents declared an interference between two applications for patents, that of Georgiev and that of Katzman, in order to determine to whom a patent on the alleged invention should be issued. One Rice was the record owner of the Katzman application. In the resulting proceeding each party proceeded to take testimony. Georgiev put questions to three witnesses to develop whether some…