POSTUM CEREAL CO. v. CALIF. FIG NUT CO.

No. 22.

272 U.S. 693 (1927)

POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA FIG NUT COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Edward S. Rogers, Frank F. Reed, and William J. Hughes for appellant, submitted. Messrs. John S. Prescott and Allen M. Reed were also on the brief.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Postum Cereal Company and its predecessors in title have for years manufactured a cereal breakfast food to which they applied, as a trade-mark, the word "Grape-Nuts," for which they secured registrations under the Trade-Mark Registration Act of February 20, 1905 (38 Stat. 727) and amendments. They filed a petition of...

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