ALMASI v. STRAUSS

Appeal No. 78-566. Interference No. 98920.

589 F.2d 523 (1979)

George S. ALMASI, Hsu Chang, George E. Keefe and David A. Thompson, Appellants, v. Walter STRAUSS, Appellee.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

Rehearing Denied February 22, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde C. Metzger, Pennie & Edmonds, New York City, attorneys of record, for appellants.

Peter V. D. Wilde, attorney of record, Murry Hill, N. J., for appellee.

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


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:

1. Apparatus...

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