Case ID: dc-patent_1/html/0378-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Morsell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Oliver P. Drake, Appellant, vs. Charles Cunningham, Assignor to John C. Pedrick, Appellee. Interference.
    Jurisdiction of judqe — appeal by patentee. — The judge lias no jurisdiction to hoar and determine any appeal on behalf of a patentee from a decision of the Commissioner in.favor of an interfering applicant.
    (Before Morsell, J., District of Columbia,
    February, 1855.)
   Morsell, J.

This is the case of an appeal by a patentee, which is opposed by the appellee on the ground of want of jurisdiction in the judge to entertain an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents in said case.

E. H. Eddy, for the appellant.

N. G. Siiethen, for the appellee.

It has been on several occasions decided, and the question must now be considered as settled, that the act of Congress confers no jurisdiction on the judge to hear and determine any appeal on behalf of a patentee from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents against his priority of claim, as in the present instance. The said appeal must therefore be dismissed; and the same is so certified by me to the Honorable Commissioner accordingly, and all the papers returned.