Legal Opinion

International Mobile MacHines Corporation v. International Telephone and Telegraph Corp.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided September 15, 1986No. Appeal 86-753PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BISSELL, Circuit Judge.

International Mobile Machines Corporation (IMM) appeals the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Board), Cancellation No. 13,615, 1 cancelling Registration No. 1,179,928 issued December 1, 1981. We reverse.

BACKGROUND

The Board granted the petition for cancellation filed by International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) against the registration of the mark ULTRA-PHONE owned by IMM. IMM was incorporated in the early 1970’s by Sherwin Sel-igsohn, its only full-time employee until 1981. The fifteen original…

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