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Arce Sons And Company vs. Selecta Biscuit Company, Inc.

ARCE SONS AND COMPANY, petitioner, vs. SELECTA BISCUIT COMPANY, INC, ET AL., respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-17981 and L-14761 | 1961-01-28

D E C I S I O N 
 
BAUTISTA ANGELO, J.: 
 
On August 31, 1955, Selecta Biscuit Company, Inc., hereinafter referred to as respondent, filed with the Philippine Patent Office a petition for the registration of the word "SELECTA" as trade-mark to be used on its bakery products alleging that it is in actual use thereof for not less than two months before said date and that "no other person, partnership, corporation, or association . . . has the right to use said trade-mark in the Philippines, either in the identical form or in any such near resemblance thereto, as might be calculated to deceive." Its...