Opinion

United States Steel Corporation v. Vasco Metals Corporation

  • 394 F.2d 1009
  • 55 C.C.P.A. 1141
  • 157 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 627
  • 1968 CCPA LEXIS 320
Court
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Filed
May 23, 1968
Status
Published
Author
Smith
On the bench
Worley, Rich, Smith, Almond, Kirkpatrick
Cited by
60 cases
Authority
More cited than 24.8%

applicant’s rights in CONSUMABLE VACUUM MELTED “reside entirely in the particular design arrangement of these three descriptive words”

How later courts described this case

  • applicant’s rights in CONSUMABLE VACUUM MELTED “reside entirely in the particular design arrangement of these three descriptive words”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

SMITH, Judge

(concurring).

I concur in the result reached by the majority for the reasons set forth in Old Grantian Co., Ltd. v. William Grant & Sons, Ltd., 361 F.2d 1018 , 53 CCPA 1257 (1966).

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