Hunt Foods and Industries, Inc. v. The Gerson Stewart Corp.
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
The issue is whether the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board erred in finding that registration of applicant-appellee’s mark would not “be likely, when applied to the goods of applicant, to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive.” 1 Section 2(d), Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(d). Applicant sought to register “HUNT” for “General Purpose Cleaning Compounds.” 2 Appellant-opposer is the owner of a plurality of registrations of marks consisting of “HUNT” and the possessive form thereof, “HUNT’S,” for a long list of canned food products. 3 The board, with one member…
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