Legal Opinion
Federated Foods, Inc. v. Fort Howard Paper Co.
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided November 24, 1976No. Patent Appeal No. 76-624PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), 189 USPQ 310 (1975), sustaining appellee’s opposition to the registration of the wood-mark HY-TOP for sanitary paper products, aluminum foil, plastic bags, and sponges, as described in application Serial No. 395,671, filed June 24, 1971. Familiarity with the opinion below is assumed. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
Appellant filed a “combined” application seeking to register HY-TOP for a full line of grocery store goods falling within eleven different…
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