Puerto Rico Distillers, Inc. v. Ko-Operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging Van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt

CLA~X, Jizstice.

This is a cancellation proceeding in which Puerto Rico Distillers, Inc. (PRD) seeks to cancel the registration 1 of Ko-Operatieve Wijn-houwers Vereniging Van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt (KWV) of a trademark applied to brandy. PRD claims that KWV's trademark so res~mb1es its own registered marks 2 for rum, all of which antedate 1965, that it will cause confusion or mistake or deceit to the injury of PRD. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board 3 denied the petition to can-. ccl and we affirm.

As PRD says, the sole issue is: Does KWV~s mark so resemble those of PRD as to be likely, when…