INTERFERENCE PRACTICE u.s.Com HEARINGS BEFORE THE THE LIBRART U MAY 1 1944 COMMITTEE ON PATENTS Copy.... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 3264 TO AMEND THE PATENT LAWS WITH RESPECT TO GOVT. SOURCE 97151 FEBRUARY 24, 1944 Printed for the use of the Committee on Patents UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1944 ان SMA CONTENTS Statement for committee on legislation, patent section_ American Chemical Society committee on patent legislation, letter.. B. F. Garvey, statement for American Patent Law Association__ Ray S. Gehr, statement for the Cleveland Patent Law Association.. Ford Harris, article, The New Interference Practice- B. M. Klivitzky, article, Comments on Proposed New Interference San Francisco, Patent Law Association of, report, statement, and ex- Walter A. Schmidt, letter for American Chemical Society, committee Richard Spencer, Interferences, extract from book. Vanderveer Voorhees, article, Out of the Frying Pan.. Benjamin T. Rauber, article, Proposed Patent Law Reform_ 53 44-5135 REVISION OF PATENT OFFICE INTERFERENCE PRACTICE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a. m., Hon. Fritz G. Lanham, presiding. Present: Representatives Lanham (presiding), Wolverton, Hartley, Hale, Stevenson, Klein, Miller, Busbey, and Rowan. Also present: Representative Ralph E. Church. (The bill under consideration, H. R. 3264, is as follows:) 78TH CONGRESS H. R. 3264 1ST SESSION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEPTEMBER 20, 1943 Mr. CHURCH introduced the following bill; which was referred to A BILL To amend the patent laws with respect to practice in interference Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- "SEC. 482. The examiners in chief shall be persons of 8 competent legal knowledge and scientific ability. The Com9 missioner of Patents, the first assistant commissioner, the 10 assistant commissioners, and the examiners in chief shall 11 constitute a board of appeals, whose duty it shall be, on 1 2 2 written petition of the appellant, to review and determine upon the validity of the adverse decisions of examiners upon 3 applications for patents and for reissues of patents. Each 5 4 appeal shall be heard by at least three members of the board 8 9 SEC. 2. Section 4904 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 35, sec. 52), is 10 amended to read as follows: 1 |