Anthony F. D'Amico v. Fuji Koike

RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Patent Interferences in Interference No. 91,541 awarding priority to the junior party, Koike, in an interference between application serial No. 588,-070, filed by Koike on May 29, 1956, and application serial No. 551,090, filed by D’Amico on December 5, 1955.

The invention is an improvement in a cam-controlled zigzag sewing machine and is defined in two closely related counts. Count 1 reads:

1. In a sewing machine having a frame, a needle-bar mounted in said frame, for lateral oscillation and for endwise reciprocation, a main shaft…