PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER CO. v. COE

No. 6271.

38 F.Supp. 427 (1941)

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER CO. v. COE, Commissioner of Patents.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

April 15, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank E. Scrivener and Chas. K. Davies, Jr., both of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

W. W. Cochran, of Washington, D. C., for defendant.


CHESNUT, District Judge.

The question to be decided in this case is whether the Philadelphia Inquirer Company (a newspaper publisher) is entitled to federal registration of the trade-mark "Everybody's Weekly" for a "weekly newspaper section". The mark was rejected by the Examiner in the Patent Office, and also by the Commissioner on an ex parte appeal to him, on the ground of prior ownership and use of the same mark by a British weekly magazine.

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