Legal Opinion
Fessenden v. Wilson
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided April 15, 1931No. Patent Appeal 2680PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLAND, Associate Judge.
This is an interference ease involving the question of priority between the junior party, Fessenden, and the senior party, patentees, Wilson and Schafer, and is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming the decision of the Examiner of Interferences, in awarding priority to appellees.
The subject-matter of the invention relates to a method and system of secret electric signaling in which a signal wave is divided arbitrarily into different parts, which are transmitted over different paths simultaneously, and are then…
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