Legal Opinion
Lipton Industries, Inc. v. Ralston Purina Co.
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 18, 1982No. Appeal No. 81-565PublishedCited by 274 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (board)1 granting the petition to cancel appellant’s registration2 of the mark FANCY FIXIN’S for cat food on the ground of abandonment due to nonuse. We affirm.
Background
Since one of the principal issues in this case is what facts were established, we will develop them in the course of the opinion. Suffice to say at this time that appellant seeks to uphold a registration, which has been on the register since 1969, on the basis of two shipments of FANCY…
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