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ABBOT Laboratories Vs. Celedonio Agrava 091 Phil 328

ABBOT LABORATORIES, petitioner, vs. HON. CELEDONIO AGRAVA, Director of Patents, respondent.

G.R. No. L-4234 | 1952-05-21

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J.:

Abbot Laboratories, a Philippine corporation, has appealed from the decision of the Director of Patents disallowing Patent Application Serial No. 77 on an invention relating to a medical preparation better known as "Tridione." The review is expressly authorized by Chapter XIII of Rep. Act No. 165 known as the Philippine Patent Law.

The application for patent was submitted in June 1948 by Abbot Laboratories of Illinois, U. S. A. and it represented that the invention was the same as that involved in three applications filed in the United States Patent Office by the inventor Marvin A. Spielman, (assignor of...