CLARK EQUIPMENT CO. v. WEEKS

Nos. 11899, 11900.

215 F.2d 678 (1954)

CLARK EQUIPMENT CO. v. WEEKS, Secretary of Commerce et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1954.

Petition for Rehearing Denied October 15, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John A. Dienner, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Francis C. Browne and William E. Schuyler, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. E. L. Reynolds, Sol., Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before EDGERTON, PRETTYMAN, and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The District Court sustained appellees in refusing to register, as alleged trade-marks for appellant's fork lift trucks, the terms Trucloader and Carloader. The court found that these are generic names of the goods and have not become distinctive of appellant's goods. We see no reason to disturb these findings. We need not consider whether these "generic names" might some day become distinctive of appellant's goods and whether, if they did, they would...

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