YASUKO KAWAI v. METLESICS

Patent Appeal Nos. 8774, 8838-8840.

480 F.2d 880 (1973)

YASUKO KAWAI et al., Appellants, v. Werner METLESICS and Leo Henry K. Sternbach, Appellees, Application of Alan Hodgson LAIRD and John Selwyn Morley. Application of Paul Martin HARDY et al. (two cases).

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

June 21, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Fedigan, John T. Miller, Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, Washington, D.C., attorneys of record for appellants.

Hugh A. Chapin, New York City, attorney of record for appellees. Samuel L. Welt, Nutley, N.J., William H. Epstein, Bernard S. Leon, Nutley, N.J., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Paul H. Heller, Laurence H. Pretty, Kenyon & Kenyon Reilly, Carr & Chapin, New York City, of counsel.

Paul N. Kokulis, Washington, D.C., Cushman, Darby & Cushman, Washington, D.C., attorneys of record, for Alan Hodgson Laird and Paul Martin Hardy. Lawrence A. Hymo, Edgar H. Martin, Fred S. Whisenhunt, Jr., William T. Bullinger, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D.C., for the Commissioner of Patents. Raymond E. Martin, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, RICH, BALDWIN, and LANE, Judges, and ALMOND, Senior Judge.


ALMOND, Senior Judge.

These are four appeals from decisions of the Patent Office Board of Appeals and the Patent Office Board of Interferences. The outcome in these appeals, three from the Board of Appeals and one from the Board of Interferences, will in each case be determined by the answer to a question of law common to all four. That question is whether an application for patent filed in a foreign country must contain a disclosure of an invention adequate to satisfy...

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