BOSE CORP. v. INTERNATIONAL JENSEN INC.

No. 91-1260.

963 F.2d 1517 (1992)

BOSE CORPORATION, Appellant, v. INTERNATIONAL JENSEN INCORPORATED, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

May 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Hieken, Fish & Richardson, Boston, Mass., argued for appellant.

Heidi A. Schiller, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, Mass., argued for appellee. With her on the brief was Toby H. Kusmer, of Schiller & Kusmer.

Before ARCHER, LOURIE and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.


ALARCON, Circuit Judge.

Bose Corporation (Bose) appeals from the dismissal of its opposition to the application of International Jensen Incorporated (International Jensen), assignee of Teledyne Industries (Teledyne), to register ACOUSTIC RESEARCH for its speaker units and turntables for phonographs. We affirm because we conclude that the challenged mark is not merely descriptive.

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Teledyne filed an application with the United States Patent and...

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