Safety-Kleen Corp. v. Dresser Industries, Inc.

LANE, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, 181 U.S.P.Q. 726 (TTAB 1974), sustaining the opposition by Dresser Industries, Inc. (Dresser) to an application filed by Safety-Kleen Corporation (SafetyKleen) to register, displayed in ligatured form, as a service mark for leasing, periodic maintenance and servicing of apparatus for cleaning mechanical parts, and granting Dresser’s petition to cancel Safety-Kleen’s registration covering the same mark for mechanical parts, cleaning units, and parts thereof including a solvent circulating pump, sink and drum…