APPLICATION OF HOLLAENDER MANUFACTURING CO.

Patent Appeal No. 74-601.

511 F.2d 1186 (1975)

Application of the HOLLAENDER MANUFACTURING CO.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 20, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald F. Frei, James S. Hight, Bruce Tittel, Cincinnati, Ohio (Wood, Herron & Evans, Cincinnati, Ohio, attorneys of record, for appellant. John J. Byrne, Washington, D. C. (Baker & McKenzie, Washington, D. C.), of counsel.

Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents, Gerald H. Bjorge, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE, Judges, and PHILIP NICHOLS, Judge, United States Court of Claims.


MARKEY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, 181 USPQ 603 (1974), upholding the denial of registration of a three-dimensional configuration as a trademark for cast aluminum fittings for joining lengths of tubing together. We affirm.

Facts

The configuration sought to be registered is a raised rib disposed axially of a cast aluminum fitting. Threaded apertures extend through the ends of the...

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