Alaska Packers' Ass'n v. Getz Bros. & Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from Commissioner of Patents. Application by Getz Bros. & Co. to register a trade-mark, opposed by the Alaska Packers’ Association. From a decision of the Commissioner of Patents granting the application, the opposing party appeals.-
1Per curiam
Alaska Packers’ Association opposed the registration by Getz Bros. & Co. of the mark “Our Flag” for canned salmon and canned oysters. It appears that the opposer was organized in 1893 by combining several minor companies. Each of the merged companies had been accustomed to use a flag, bearing a distinguishing letter, as a mark and the opposer after the merger continued to use the flags of its constituent companies to designate different brands of salmon. In Alaska Packers’ Association v. Admiralty Trading Co., 43 App. D. C. 198, the Trading Company applied for registration of a flag “having a…
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