Court Opinion

ID: 9458377
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:50:44.005849+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:44.924184
License: Public Domain

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge
(dissenting) :
I would affirm this case on the basis that when the assets of Nueva Fabrica de Hielo, S. A., were confiscated by the government of Cuba in October, 1960, that corporation was, under Cuban law, dissolved. The purported assignment of the trademark by the non-existent Cuban corporation in 1965 was a nullity. The mark “Malta Cristal” was in the public domain when the appellee commenced using it. The suit was properly dismissed by the trial court on the ground that neither appellant had standing to maintain it.
With deference to the contrary view so well set forth for the majority by Judge Wisdom, I dissent.