MINNESOTA MIN. & MFG. CO. v. MINNESOTA LINSEED OIL P. CO.

Patent Appeals Nos. 6111-6113.

229 F.2d 448 (1956)

MINNESOTA MINING & MFG. CO., Appellant, v. MINNESOTA LINSEED OIL PAINT CO. (now by change of name Minnesota Paints, Inc.), Appellee. MINNESOTA MINING & MFG. CO., Appellant, v. MINNESOTA LINSEED OIL PAINT CO. (now by change of name Minnesota Paints, Inc.), Appellee. MINNESOTA LINSEED OIL PAINT CO. (now by change of name Minnesota Paints, Inc.), Appellant, v. MINNESOTA MINING & MFG. CO., Appellee.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

January 20, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Kinney and Mark W. Gehan, St. Paul, Minn., Carpenter, Abbott, Coulter & Kinney, St. Paul, Minn., of counsel for Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co.

Arthur S. Caine, Minneapolis, Minn., for Minnesota Linseed Oil Paint Co. (now by change of name Minnesota Paints, Inc.).

Before GARRETT, Chief Judge, and O'CONNELL, JOHNSON, WORLEY, and COLE, Associate Judges.


O'CONNELL, Acting Chief Judge.

These are three appeals from the decisions of the Commissioner of Patents acting through the Examiner-in-Chief. One of them is a cancelation proceeding, No. 5463, 98 U.S.P.Q. 74; the other two are opposition proceedings, No. 27,956, 98 U.S.P.Q. 76, and No. 28,468, 98 U.S.P.Q. 72. The issues in all three cases overlap each other to a great extent and were determined in the Patent Office on the...

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