Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. (International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., Assignee, Substituted). v. Talk-A-Phone Co

COLE, Judge.

Registration of the trade-mark “Talk-A-Phone” on the Principal Register of the United States Patent Office under section 2(f) of the Trade-Mark Act of 1946, 1 such mark being applied to interoffice and interplant communication systems, has been opposed by the prior user and registrant of “Select-O-Phone,” a trade-mark applied to similar communication apparatus. The opposition is predicated on that clause of section 2(d) of said Act of 1946 relating to the likelihood of confusion, mistake, or deception of purchasers resulting from similarity between trade-marks. The Examiner of…