Finch v. Van der Veer Dillenbach

121 F.2d 459, 28 C.C.P.A. 1171, 49 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 731, 1941 CCPA LEXIS 85
CourtCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals
DecidedJune 9, 1941
DocketNos. 4413 and 4414
StatusPublished
Cited by4 cases

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Finch v. Van der Veer Dillenbach, 121 F.2d 459, 28 C.C.P.A. 1171, 49 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 731, 1941 CCPA LEXIS 85 (ccpa 1941).

Opinion

Hatfield, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court:

These are appeals in interference proceedings from decisions of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decisions of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority of the inventions defined in counts 1, 2, and 3 in interference No. 73,335 (appeal No. 4413) and counts 1 to 11, inclusive, in interference No. 73,813 (appeal No. 4414) to appellee Garett Van Der Veer Dillen-back, Jr.

No evidence was introduced by appellant in either of the involved interferences. Accordingly, he is confined to the filing dates of his applications which matured into the patents here involved for conception and constructive reduction to practice.

It was stipulated by counsel for the parties during the proceedings in the Patent Office that as the evidence introduced by appellee in interference No. 73,335 would be substantially the same as that introduced by him in interference No. 73,813 it might be considered with the same force and effect as though introduced in each interference. Furthermore, for the purpose of the hearing in this court, the records in the interferences were consolidated. Accordingly, we shall dispose of the issues involved in the two appeals in one opinion.

Appeal No. 4413—Interference No. 73,335

The .interference is between appellant’s patent No. 2,047,863, issued July 14, 1936, on an application, serial No. 65,869, filed February 26, 1936, and appellee’s application, serial No. 107,524, filed October 26, 1936.

Appellee is the junior party, and as his application was filed subsequent to the issuance of appellant’s patent the burden was upon him to establish priority of invention beyond a reasonable doubt.

[1173]*1173The counts in issue originated in appellant’s patent.

Count 1, which is illustrative of count 2, and count 3 read:

1. In combination, a telephone line having a subscriber station including a phone-box unit at opposite ends thereof; an induction coil in each phone-box unit connected in said line at each of said stations; a transmitter for generating a carrier wave modified by signals; inductance means coaxial with one of said induction coils for electrically inducing said generated signals into said line when said stations are in operative connection; means coupled with the other of said induction coils for picking-up said signals; and a receiver connected to said last mentioned nfeans to be operated by said picked-up signals.
3. In a system for transmitting picture signals over a telephone line having a subscriber station with a phone-box at each end thereof and an induction coil in each phone-box, a source of aiudio-frequency ccvrriei' current, means for generating signals in accordance with the shading of a picture to be transmitted and for modulating said audio frequency current; means controlled by said signals for electrically inducing corresponding signals into one end of said telephone line comprising a solenoid cooperable with the induction coil at said first end of the telephone line; a receiving station coupled with the other end of said telephone line having means for receiving said picture signals and means for translating said signals. [Italics ours.]

Tlie invention in issue relates to a system or a combination of elements (each of wliicli elements the Primary Examiner stated was old per se), for the transmission of picture signals over a telephone line, wherein picture-transmission apparatus is associated or coupled to a telephone line by means of “inductive coupling,” as set forth in the counts in issue.

During the motion period, appellant moved to dissolve the interference on the ground that appellee had no right to make the claims constituting the counts in issue.

The motion was overruled by the Primary Examiner.

It is not contended here by counsel for appellant that appellee is not entitled to make counts 1 and 2, and apparently the issue of ap-pellee’s right to make those counts was not raised before the Board of Appeals. However, it is contended here by counsel for appellant, as it was before the Board of Appeals, that appellee is not entitled to make count 3 for the reason that that count calls for “a source of audio-frequency earner current” and means “for modulating said audio-frequency current [italics ours], and that, although appellee discloses means for producing a modulated carrier cu/rrent, he does not disclose a source of u/nmodulated carrier current and means for modulating such carrier current.

The Primary Examiner held, and his holding has not been questioned, that appellant discloses in his patent a source of audio-frequency carrier current and, in addition thereto, means for modulating said audio-frequency carrier current.

For the purpose of clarity, we here reproduce figure 1 of ap-pellee’s application:

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