Old Monk Olive Oil Co. v. Southwestern Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

This is a trade-mark cancellation proceeding- wherein appellant brings before us for review a decision of the Commissioner of Patents which reversed a decision of the Examiner of Trade-mark Interferences sustaining appellant’s petition for cancellation of registration No. 183,211, issued on April 22, 1924, under the provisions of the Trade-Mark Act of February 20, 1905. The mark so registered consists of the words “Old Monk” applied, as stated in the application, to “GINGER ALE, ORANGE, LEMON, LIME, AND PUNCH, ALL BEING NONALCOHOLIC, NONCEREAL, MALTLESS BEVERAGES SOLD AS SOFT DRINKS.”

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