MARTIN, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal by J. E. Bates & Co., Inc., from a decision of the Assistant Commissioner of Patents, denying a petition of the appellant, seeking a cancellation of the registration of "The Bates Shoe" as a trade-mark of the appellee.
The record contains extended evidence, but the controlling facts are plain. In the year 1866 A. J. Bates and J. E. Bates were copartners, engaged in the wholesale and retail shoe business in New York...
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