MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Appeal from a decision of the Board of Patent Interferences (board), finding existence of an interference in fact and awarding priority to senior party Strauss. We vacate.
Background
On September 28, 1971, patent No. 3,609,720 issued to Strauss for a magnetic domain detector integral with the domain propagation channel. Operation of the detector is based on the planar Hall effect. Claim 1 is illustrative:
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