In re Vertex Hosiery Mills, Inc.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patients, sustaining the decision of the examiner of trade-mark interferences, which held that appellant was not entitled to the registration of a trade-mark which is described as follows:

The mark is applied or affixed to the goods by knitting onto the outer surface thereof a ridge composed of a few, immediately successive, accumulated courses of knitted loops of the self-color of the hosiery, completely encircling the same upon the outer surface thereof, a short distance below the welt, regardless 'of any run-stop characteristic…