DENISON, Circuit Judge.
We granted a rehearing and took briefs solely upon one question, said to be involved, and which, as paraphrased and applied is:
If Wadsworth, in 1907, conceived an invention and "reduced it to practice" by one instance of use, but did nothing more with it until he filed his application in 1916, while Kries invented and filed his application on the same device in 1910, whereupon the Patent Office found Wadsworth's reduction to practice...
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