National Cash Register Co. v. National Paper Products Co.

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a Patent Office decision, in a trade-mark opposition proceeding, dismissing the opposition.

The appellant, the National Cash Register Company, long prior to the adoption by appellee of the distinctively printed word “National” as a trade-mark, sold its cash registers and paper rolls for use therewith under its corporate name. In its application appellee confined its *352use of its mark to “toilet paper, paper towels, paper roll towels, and serpentine, a narrow ribbon of paper.” It is not contended that confusion would result, unless from use of the mark on the…