Hess v. Dreyfuss’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “of conception in the United States, assuming Laurila to be the inventor, proceeds as follows: (1) Laurila, as the junior party to this interference, had the burden of proving priority of invention by a preponderance of the evidence; (2) in Laurila's case this involves proving that the knowledge of his conceived invention must either have been brought to the United States or communicated to someone in the United States prior to April 15, 1954; (3) communication of the conception to someone in the United States may amount to corroboration if: 23”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mortsell v. Laurila