Source: http://www.chanrobles.com/usa/us_supremecourt/262/209/case.php
Timestamp: 2019-10-16 11:40:07
Document Index: 427178535

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 4915', '§ 4894', '§ 4915', '§ 4915', '§ 9', '§ 4915', '§ 9', '§ 9']

The bill was filed by the appellant, the American Steel Foundries, against the Commissioner of Patents to secure an adjudication that the appellant is entitled to have its trademark "Simplex" registered, and authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to register the same. The Commissioner appeared as defendant, and, by stipulation, the Simplex Electric Heating Company was allowed to intervene as the real party in interest. The bill averred that the American Steel Foundries had duly filed an application in the Patent Office for the registration, that the Examiner of Trade-Marks had refused the application, that the Commissioner of Patents had affirmed this refusal, and that, on appeal, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia had affirmed the action of the Commissioner, that a petition for certiorari had been filed in this Court and granted, and that, thereafter, the cause chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
This section applies to proceedings in the Patent Office and before the Commissioner, and it was pressed upon this Court that it could not apply to such an independent chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
proceeding as the bill in equity provided for in § 4915. But this Court held that § 4894 did apply. Mr. Justice Blatchford, speaking for the Court, admitted (p. 122 U. S. 439), following Butterworth v. Hoe, 112 U. S. 50, 112 U. S. 61, that the proceeding by bill in equity under § 4915
This view of the intimate relation of the bill in equity allowed in § 4915 to the application for a patent and the practice and procedure provided in due course thereof is of much assistance in giving proper scope to the words of § 9 of the Trade-Mark Act. After making provision for chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
an appeal to the District Court of Appeals from a simple refusal of registration, and from decisions of the Patent Office in three different kinds of adversary proceedings therein in respect of such registration, on complying with the conditions required in case of an appeal from refusal of a patent or a decision in a patent interference proceeding, the words are "and the same rules of practice and procedure shall govern in every stage of such proceedings as far as the same may be applicable." If the bill in equity of § 4915 is only a part of the proceeding for an application for a patent, as held in Gandy v. Marble, it is no straining of the language to make these words include a bill in equity for the registration of a trademark. This Court has taken exactly this view in Atkins v. Moore, 212 U. S. 285. In that case, it was held that a decision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia affirming the decision of the Commissioner of Patents refusing registration of a trademark on an appeal under § 9 of the Trade-Mark Act was not a final judgment of the Court of Appeals which could be appealed to this Court, and, in the argument to show that it was not, Chief Justice Fuller, who spoke for the Court, said:
This language is quoted with approval in the opinion of this Court in Baldwin Co. v. Howard Co., 256 U. S. 35, in which it was held that there could be no review in this Court, by appeal or certiorari, of a decision of the District Court of Appeals in respect to the registration of a trademark under § 9 of the Trade-Mark Act. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary