James Huggins & Sons, Inc. v. Avenarius Bros. (Attorney General of the United States, Substituted)

WORLEY, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Examiner-in-Chief of the United States Patent Office, 97 USPQ 474, reversing the decision of the Examiner of Interferences which sustained the petition of James Huggins & Sons, Inc., petitioner below and appellant here, to cancel Registration No. 14,048 for “Carbolineum” as applied to preservative liquids.

The parties’ efforts in support of their respective positions have resulted in a somewhat lengthy record consisting of oral testimony of witnesses, supplemented by a large number of documentary exhibits relating to orders, invoices,…