Lightnin Chemical Co. v. Royal Home Products, Inc.

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an appeal in a cancellation proceeding from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents, speaking through the Examiner-in-Chief, 89 USPQ 81, affirming the holding of the Examiner of Interferences sustaining appellee’s petition to cancel a trade-mark of appellant which consists of the notation “Lightnin* ” applied to “Bowl Cleaner” products.

In its petition for cancellation; appellee alleged that its trade-mark “Blitz” and appellant’s trade-mark “Lightnin’ ” have' the *669same meaning; that “Lightnin’ ” is the English translation of the German word “Blitz”; and that the use of…