Legal Opinion
In re Sawyer Electrical Manufacturing Co.
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided June 26, 1944No. 4916PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJaokson, Judge
Appellant appealed from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents, 57 USPQ 148, affirming that of the Examiner of Trade-Marks in refusing to register the word “SAWYER” in block capital letters as a trade-mark for electric motors.
The examiner held the mark to be the name of an individual not distinctively displayed and therefore forbidden by that part of the Trade-Mark Act of 1905, as amended, reading as follows:
Seo. 5. * * * Provided, That no mark which consists merely in the name of an individual, firm, corporation, or association not written, printed, impressed, or woven in some particular…
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