No. 1305 | D.C. Cir. | May 3, 1920
From a decision by the Commissioner of Patents, awarding priority to Reid, Reid & Kelley, the senior parties, in an interference, Kitselman appeals.
, The invention involved relates to double series machines Jor making two rolls of fence simultaneously. This appeal is a companion of the appeal in Nos. 1303 and 1304, 49 App. D. C. 377, 266 F. 255" date_filed="1920-05-03" court="D.C. Cir." case_name="Reid v. Kitselman">266 Fed. 255, in which the same parties are concerned, this day decided. The three tribunals of the Patent Office concur in awarding priority to Reid, Reid & Kelley. Where this is so, unless there is manifest error, the decision of the Commissioner should bé affirmed. Greenawalt v. Dwight, 49 App. D. C. 82, 258 F. 982" date_filed="1919-06-02" court="D.C. Cir." case_name="Greenawalt v. Dwight">258 Fed. 982, and cases therein cited; Hopkins v. Riegger, 49 App. D. C. 188, 262 F. 642" date_filed="1920-01-05" court="D.C. Cir." case_name="Hopkins v. Riegger">262 Fed. 642; and Kennicott v. Caps, 49 App. D. C. 187, 262 F. 641" date_filed="1920-01-05" court="D.C. Cir." case_name="Kennicott v. Caps">262 Fed. 641. We find no such error in this case, and therefore the decision of the Commissioner is affirmed.
Affirmed.