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CHRIS LAGANAS SHOE COMPANY v. WATSON

No. 12395.

221 F.2d 881 (1955)

CHRIS LAGANAS SHOE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Robert C. WATSON, Commissioner of Patents, Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce, and Brown Shoe Company, Incorporated, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William E. Schuyler, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Francis C. Browne, Andrew B. Beveridge and James Atkins, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. E. L. Reynolds, Sol., United States Patent Office, for appellees Robert C. Watson, Commissioner of Patents, and Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce.

Mr. Charles E. Wills, St. Louis, Mo., of the bar of the Supreme Court of Missouri, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. James W. Dent, Washington, D. C., and Joseph J. Gravely, St. Louis, Mo., were on the brief, for appellee Brown Shoe Company, Inc.

Before EDGERTON, PRETTYMAN, and BAZELON, Circuit Judges.

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

Brown Shoe Company, Inc. successfully opposed appellant's application for registration of a trade-mark in the Patent Office. Brown Shoe Company, Inc. is a New York corporation. Appellant sued the corporation and the Commissioner of Patents1 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The court dismissed the complaint. The question is whether the court had jurisdiction.

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