[SEC-SICD * CASE NO. 1309. August 21, 1981.]
INTERMODAL SHIPPING AGENCIES, INC., complainant, vs. INTERMODAL TRANSPORT FORWARDERS, INC., respondent.
D E C I S I O N
This is a complaint filed by Intermodal Shipping Agencies, Inc. thru counsel, dated January 13, 1976 against Intermodal Transport Forwarders, Inc., for the latter to change its corporate name on the grounds that its adoption and use of the word "Intermodal" is misleading and confusing to the minds of the public and that the complainant has a prior legal right to the use of said name. LexLib
Respondent corporation, in its answer dated May 8, 1976, denied the allegations of the complainant and claimed that the word "Intermodal" is derived from the concept "Intermodalism" which means the forwarding or the transporting of cargo via several modes of transport, such as by air, land and sea; that carrying or transporting of cargo by air is referred to as airfreight, by sea as shipping and by land as overland. Oftentimes, the transporting of cargo is done by a combination of any of the...
