H. MARVIN GINN v. INTERN. ASS'N OF FIRE CHIEFS

Appeal No. 85-2513.

782 F.2d 987 (1986)

The H. MARVIN GINN CORPORATION, Appellant, v. The INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

January 23, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Laff, Laff, Whitesel, Conte & Saret, Chicago, Ill., argued for appellant. With him on brief were Larry L. Saret and Lawrence R. Robins.

Martin W. Bercovici, Keller & Heckman, Washington, D.C., argued for appellee. With him on brief was Susan J. Blum.

Before RICH, KASHIWA and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


RICH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the April 12, 1985, decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (board) in cancellation No. 13,676, 225 USPQ 940 (1985), granting the International Association of Fire Chiefs' (IAFC) petition to cancel the H. Marvin Ginn Corporation's (Ginn) Principal Register registration of the mark FIRE CHIEF (Registration No. 1,079,863, issued December 20, 1977), for a "magazine directed to the...

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