Court Opinion

ID: 9642576
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 18:03:19.907723+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:49.679136
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GARRETT, Associate Judge
(specially concurring).
From the facts shown in the record in this case, I agree that cancellation of appellant’s mark is proper. It seems to me, however, that the trend of the opinion of the honored PRESIDING JUDGE is to the effect that one seeking cancellation of a trade-mark is under no greater burden than an opposer to a registration. I am not prepared at this time definitely to hold that such is the law. The differences in language of the respective sections of the statutes, dealing with oppositions and cancellations, while slight, is possibly significant, particularly when it is remembered that valuable trade may have been built up under a registered mark, which may lie seriously affected by the cancellation of (hat mark.
.So far as I am concerned, the particular subject-matter herein pointed out remains an open question to be considered when occasion arises.