IN RE CALIFORNIA PERFUME CO.

Patent Appeal No. 2926.

56 F.2d 885 (1932)

In re CALIFORNIA PERFUME CO., Inc.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 28, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry G. Hunt, of Washington, D. C., 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.


BLAND, Associate Judge.

Applicant's application for registration of its alleged trade-mark "Avon," as applied to toothbrushes, was, by the Commissioner of Patents, denied on the ground that the term was geographical.

Upon appeal to this court, appellant contends that its mark is not merely geographical, and is not, therefore, barred from registration by the following provision in section 5 of the Trade-mark Act of February 20, 1905 (33 Stat. 725, 15...

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