Legal Opinion

Davis v. Reddy

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

Decided May 15, 1980No. Appeal No. 80-506PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Interferences (board) awarding priority of counts 1-6, 8, and 9 in interference No. 98,661 to the junior party Reddy.1 We reverse.

*886 Background

The real parties in interest are Motorola, Inc., assignee of the senior party Davis et al., and the Bendix Corporation, assignee of the junior party Reddy.

The nine counts in the interference were copied by junior party Reddy into his patent application, serial No. 226,498, filed February 15, 1972, from the senior-party Davis et al. patent, No. 3,727,081,…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Kawai v. MetlesicsCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1973
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  3. Anderson v. AndersonDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1975
  4. Milton Oscar Schur and James C. Rickards v. Paul Adolf MullerCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1967
  5. Allen v. BlaisdellCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1952

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