SNITZER v. ETZEL

Patent Appeal No. 75-561.

531 F.2d 1062 (1976)

Elias SNITZER, Appellant, v. Howard W. ETZEL et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

April 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Dunner, Lane, Aitken, Dunner & Ziems, Washington, D. C., atty. of record, for appellant. William C. Nealon, Southbridge, Mass., Richard L. Aitken, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Joseph A. Hill, Vito J. DiPietro, Washington, D. C., attys. of record, for appellees.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE and MILLER, Associate Judges.


MILLER, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision1 of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Interferences awarding priority of invention of the two counts in issue to the junior party, Etzel et al. (Etzel). The counts were copied by Snitzer2 from Etzel's patent No. 3,208,009,3 issued September 21, 1965. The ultimate question, which the board decided against Snitzer, is whether...

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