R. S. Howard Co. v. Robertson

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Plaintiff, hereafter for convenience-referred to as the Baldwin Company, filed a bill in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to enjoin the Commissioner of Patents from canceling two trade-mark registrations, one of which was registered March 8, 1898, by the Valley Gem Piano Company, which “consists of the word ‘Howard’ in connection with the initials ‘V G P Co.’ in the form of a monogram.” The other mark was registered October 17, 1905, by the Baldwin Company and consists of the word “Howard.” The Baldwin Company is the owner of both marks.

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