Star-Kist Foods, Inc. v. P.J. Rhodes & Co.

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• petitioner must show a real and rational basis for belief that he would be damaged by registration of the mark he seeks to cancel that stems from an actual commercial or pecuniary interest in his own mark
• “Cancellation of [a trademark] registration is proper ‘when (1) there is a valid 8 ground why the trademark should not continue to be registered and (2) the party petitioning for 9 || cancellation has standing.’” (citation omitted)

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