Bendix Aviation Corporation v. Ardor Manufacturing Company, Inc.

RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board dismissing an opposition to the registration of “BENDIT” for “hand tools for bending or shaping aluminum wire into hooks,” application serial No. 59,591, filed September 26, 1958.

Opposer is Bendix Aviation Corporation 1 which, under the trademark “Bendix,” manufactures and sells, inter alia, hand tools for servicing and maintaining equipment such as electrical and ignition systems. The tools include clinching pliers, crimping tools, wrenches and the like all of which are suitable for use to bend…