MAYTAG CO. v. DAVIS

Patent Appeal No. 2173.

36 F.2d 137 (1929)

MAYTAG CO. v. DAVIS.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

December 19, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace R. Lane, of Chicago, Ill. (Frederick F. Mason, of Chicago, Ill., and William S. Hodges, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellant.

Merrell E. Clark, of New York City (H. A. Dodge and Parker Dodge, both of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellee.

Before GRAHAM, Presiding Judge, and BLAND, HATFIELD, GARRETT, and LENROOT, Associate Judges.


BLAND, Judge.

Appellee, Davis, filed application in the Patent Office on August 28, 1924, for a patent on an improvement in a washing machine and the Maytag Company, assignee of Howard F. Snyder, deceased, on December 12, 1924, filed application for a patent on the same kind of device. Priority of invention was awarded to Davis, who has assigned his patent to the 1900 Washer Company, and Snyder's assignee has appealed here. The question of priority is presented because...

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