Tac Technical Instrument Corporation v. Fischer & Porter Co.

RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (abstract 157 USPQ 712) dismissing an opposition by appellant to the registration of the word-mark TACTIC, application serial No. 222,922, filed July 8, 1965, for “Analog Computer for Traffic Intersection Control.”

Appellant’s Notice of Opposition alleges ownership of the trademark TACTIC “for instruments and appliances of electrical, electromechanical and/or electronic construction, used for measurement, control, sensing, detection, testing, and signalling purposes.” It claims use of said mark…