Court Opinion

ID: 9446754
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:17:32.883255+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:46.002294
License: Public Domain

RICH, Judge
(concurring).
I agree that the decision below should be affirmed because I believe that no servicemark use (to coin a phrase having the same meaning as “trademark use”) has been made of the words “Sky-Room.” They aptly describe a private room on an airplane — a room in the sky —whether or not it is convertible to a sleeping compartment. They have been used in running text in a descriptive manner. In the absence of any evidence that the term “has become distinctive of the applicant’s goods in commerce” (section 2(f), 15 U.S.C.A. § 1052(f)), the specimen we have before us fails to indicate, at least to me, that the public would be likely to take the words “Sky-Room” as indicating a service originating with Compagnie Nationale Air France as distinguished from any other airline using the same type of aircraft. While the use of quotation marks has a slight tendency toward the establishment of appellant’s claim, this emphasis is not sufficient by itself to turn that into a service mark which otherwise lacks the necessary characteristics, either inherently or by virtue of manner of use.