MATTOR v. COOLEGEM

Patent Appeal No. 75-616.

530 F.2d 1391 (1976)

John Alan MATTOR, Appellant, v. Petrus G. J. M. COOLEGEM, Appellee.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolf E. Hutz, Wilmington, Del., atty. of record, for appellant.

Albert C. Johnston, New York City, atty. of record, for appellee.

Before Markey, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE and MILLER, Judges.


BALDWIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Interferences awarding priority to senior party Coolegem. The board concluded that junior party Mattor had not established an actual reduction to practice earlier than February 7, 1969, the date afforded Coolegem based upon his foreign priority document.1 We reverse.

The Invention

The invention herein is an electrophotographic...

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