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IN RE NANTUCKET, INC.

Appeal No. 81-567.

677 F.2d 95 (1982)

In re NANTUCKET, INC.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

May 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Timothy Hobbs, B. Parker Livingston, Jr., and Paul F. Kilmer, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Joseph F. Nakamura, Sol., Fred E. McKelvey, Associate Sol., Brian Anderson, Trademark Atty., Washington, D. C., for Patent and Trademark Office.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, MILLER and NIES, Judges.

MARKEY, Chief Judge.

Nantucket, Inc. (Nantucket) appeals from a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (board) affirming a refusal to register the mark NANTUCKET for men's shirts on the ground that it is "primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive." In re Nantucket, Inc., 209 USPQ 868 (TTAB 1981). We reverse.

BACKGROUND

On March 13, 1978, Nantucket, based in North Carolina, filed application serial number 162,716 for registration...

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