Charles of the Ritz, Inc. v. Elizabeth Arden Sales Corp.

This is an appeal in a trade-mark cancellation proceeding from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents, 66 USPQ 420, affirming the decision of the Examiner of Interferences sustaining appellee’s petition for the cancellation of appellant’s registered trade-mark “FEATHER TOUCH” for use on toilet cream.

Appellant’s mark was registered September 29, 1942, on an application filed June 10, 1942. It was claimed in appellant’s application that appellant had used its mark on its goods since June 5,1942.

Appellee’s trade-mark — “ARDENA FEATHER-LIGHT FOUNDATION CREAM” — for use on face cream, was…