Application of Bennie F. Dirzius, Doing Business as Dirzius MacHine Shop

RICH, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirming the rejection of application Ser. No. 60,903, filed October 20, 1958, to register “Hi-Speed Drillmaster” on the Principal Register as a trademark for “attachments to industrial drill presses for increasing their speed.” The claimed date of first use is May 13, 1955.

The application was rejected under section 2(d) of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. 1052) on the prior registration of “Drillmaster,” Reg. No. 367,025, issued May 9, 1939, to Chicago Flexible Shaft Company, for “HAND OPERATED…