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UNIVERSAL MILLS CORPORATION vs. UNIVERSAL TEXTILE MILLS, INC.

UNIVERSAL MILLS CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. UNIVERSAL TEXTILE MILLS, INC., respondent.

G.R. No. L-28351 | 1977-07-28

BARREDO, J.:

Appeal from the order of the Securities and Exchange Commission in S.E.C. Case No. 1079, entitled In the Matter of the Universal Textile Mills, Inc. vs. Universal Mills Corporation, a petition to have appellant change its corporate name on the ground that such name is "confusingly and deceptively similar" to that of appellee, which petition the Commission granted.

According to the order, "the Universal Textile Mills, Inc. was organ on December 29, 1953, as a textile manufacturing firm for which it was issued a certificate of registration on January 8, 1954. The Universal Mills Corporation, on the other hand, was registered...