WILLIAMS v. ADMINISTRATOR OF NAT. AERO. & SPACE ADMIN.

Patent Appeal No. 8712.

463 F.2d 1391 (1972)

Donald D. WILLIAMS and Hughes Air-craft Company, Appellants, v. The ADMINISTRATOR OF the NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

Petition for Reconsideration Denied November 30, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. H. MacAllister, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., Richard R. Trexler, Chicago, Ill. (Olson, Trexler, Wolters & Bushnell), Chicago, Ill., John M. Lee, Los Angeles, Cal. (Fulwider, Patton, Rieber, Lee & Utecht), Los Angeles, Cal., Richard P. Schulze, Washington, D. C., attys. of record, for appellants.

Robert F. Kempf, Silver Spring, Md., Neil B. Siegel, John B. Farmakides, Washington, D. C., attys. of record, for appellee. Leonard Rawicz, Potomac, Md., of counsel.

Before RICH, Acting Chief Judge, ALMOND, BALDWIN and LANE, Associate Judges, and MALETZ, Judge, United States Customs Court, sitting by designation.


BALDWIN, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Patent Interferences, adhered to on reconsideration, in a proceeding under Section 305 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. § 2457). The board held that the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (hereinafter NASA), on behalf of the United States, is entitled to receive the patent to issue on Williams patent application serial No...

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