Legal Opinion
The Fleetwood Company v. Hazel Bishop, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 9, 1965No. 15053PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HASTINGS, Chief Judge.
In 1958, Hazel Bishop, Inc., defendantappellee, applied for registration of its trademark TINTSTIK for a hair coloring preparation in stick form. The Fleet-wood Company, plaintiff-appellant, filed an opposition proceeding in the Patent Office against the application for such registration, basing its opposition on Fleetwood’s prior use and registration of TINTZ for hair coloring preparations and Fleetwood’s purported prior use of TINTZ STICK for hair coloring touchup pencil.
The Patent Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, one member dissenting, found that Fleetwood had…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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