Task: songer_geniss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to identify the issue in the case, that is, the social and/or political context of the litigation in which more purely legal issues are argued. Put somewhat differently, this field identifies the nature of the conflict between the litigants. The focus here is on the subject matter of the controversy rather than its legal basis. Consider the following categories: "criminal" (including appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence), "civil rights" (excluding First Amendment or due process; also excluding claims of denial of rights in criminal proceeding or claims by prisoners that challenge their conviction or their sentence (e.g., habeas corpus petitions are coded under the criminal category); does include civil suits instituted by both prisoners and callable non-prisoners alleging denial of rights by criminal justice officials), "First Amendment", "due process" (claims in civil cases by persons other than prisoners, does not include due process challenges to government economic regulation), "privacy", "labor relations", "economic activity and regulation", and "miscellaneous".

YAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
This appeal is from the Commissioner of Patents in an interference proceeding, in which the issue is stated in a single count as follows:
“For hermetically sealing substances, the combination of a receptacle having on its exterior below the rim an upwardly facing shoulder that inclines outward at less than right angles to the exterior wall of the rim, a rectangular elastic gasket located on said shoulder, and a cap having a downward and outward flaring skirt with the inner wall of the flaring portion of said skirt shaped to engage the upper and outer angle of said gasket and - force the gasket diagonally to its seat on said shoulder when the cap is held down by exterior air pressure.”
This count is claim 2 of a patent issued to Robinson on July 13,1920. Davis copied the claim from the Robinson patent into his application, which was not filed until March 20, 1922, or about 20 months' after ■ the issue of the Robinson patent. The case turns wholly on issues of fact, and under the rule of evidence applied in such eases a' heavy burden is placed upon Davis in proving priority.
The record is a rather interesting one, and we have examined it with care, supplemented by the able briefs of counsel. In the elaborate opinions of the various tribunals of the Patent Office, the case has been reviewed at length, and in each instance priority was awarded to Davis. While the case is a close one, in view of a question of originality involved, we are of opinion that the conclusion thus reached is correct.
Inasmuch as the testimony has been reviewed in detail by the tribunals below, and especially in the able opinion rendered by the Board of Examiners in Chief, in which we fully concur, further consideration' here would amount merely to repetition.'
The decision of the Commissioner is affirmed.

Question: What is the general issue in the case?
A. criminal
B. civil rights
C. First Amendment
D. due process
E. privacy
F. labor relations
G. economic activity and regulation
H. miscellaneous
Answer:

Answer: G