Legal Opinion
Hull v. Davenport
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided May 29, 1937No. Patent Appeal 3800PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLAND, Associate Judge.
This is an appeal by the party Hull from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, in which priority of invention relating to refrigerating apparatus was awarded to the party Davenport. The Board reversed the decision of the Examiner of Interferences which had awarded priority in the invention of the count to the junior party Hull.
Hull was the first to conceive and the last to reduce to practice. He was awarded a date of conception of June 3, 1930, and he filed his application January 31, 1931. The party Davenport filed his application…
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