IN RE FEDERAL CEMENT TILE CO.

Patent Appeal No. 2977.

58 F.2d 457 (1932)

In re FEDERAL CEMENT TILE CO.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

May 23, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Bernhard Thiess, of Chicago, Ill. (Sidney Neuman and A. Arnold Brand, both of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellant.

T. A. Hostetler, of Washington, D. C., for Commissioner of Patents.

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


GARRETT, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents, affirming the decision of the Examiner of Trade-Mark Interferences refusing to appellant registration of the word "Featherweight" as a trade-mark for use on concrete roof slabs.

Rejection was based upon the finding that the mark is descriptive of the character or quality of the goods. The registration of such marks is prohibited by the language of section 5 of the...

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