J. B. WILLIAMS CO. v. WILLIAMS

Patent Appeal No. 2659.

48 F.2d 398 (1931)

J. B. WILLIAMS CO. v. WILLIAMS.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 31, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur B. Jenkins, of Hartford, Conn. (Hubert Howson, of New York City, and Theodore K. Bryant, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellant.

Clarence A. O'Brien, Charles E. A. Smith, and Thomas E. Turpin, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRAHAM, Presiding Judge, and BLAND, HATFIELD, GARRETT, and LENROOT, Associate Judges.


GARRETT, Associate Judge.

This appeal involves the right of appellee to register a facsimile of his own autographically produced name as a technical trade-mark under the Trade-Mark Registration Act of 1905 as amended (15 USCA §§ 81-109).

His application is to register "E. W. Williams," in the form of a facsimile produced from his own signature, for use as a mark on a cream, or lotion, to be used after shaving. Use of the mark is claimed since January...

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