Legal Opinion
Cerveceria Centroamericana, S.A. v. Cerveceria India, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 26, 1989No. 89-1369PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit Judge.
Cervecería Centroamericana, S.A. (Cen-troamericana) appeals the decision, dated January 12, 1989, of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), granting Cer-vecería India, Inc.’s (India’s) petition to cancel Centroamericana’s Registration No. 972,984 for the word mark MEDALLA DE ORO, for beer, on the grounds of abandonment. See Cerveceria India Inc. v. Cerveceria Centroamericana, S.A., 10 USPQ2d 1064 (TTAB 1989) (Cancellation No. 14,654). We affirm.
Background
Centroamericana, a foreign beer producer, obtained a United States…
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