In re Paris Medicine Co.

Lenroot, Judge,

delivered tlie opinion of tlie court:

This is an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents, affirming a decision of the Examiner of Trade-marks, refusing to register, under the ten-year clause of the Trade-mark Act of February 20, 1905, a mark consisting of the words “Tasteless Chill Tonic.” As set forth in the application for registration, the said mark is applied to “a medicinal compound intended for the relief of malaria and the chills and fever accompanying that ailment, and as a tonic in cases of debility requiring stimulation of the appetite.”

While the…