 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 958 pages
...manufacturers or the vendible commodities of particular merchants may be distinguished from those of others. It may consist in any symbol or in any form of words,...affixed, it follows that no sign or form of words can he appropriated as a valid trademark which, from the nature of the fact conveyed by its primary meaning,... | |
 | Charles Patrick Daly - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 610 pages
...invention has no force under the circumstances. The office of a trade-mark is to point out distinctly the origin or ownership of the articles to which it is affixed, or in other words, to give notice who was the producer. A generic name or a name merely descriptive... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 728 pages
...manufacturers or the vendible commodities of particular merchants may be distinguished from those of others. It may consist in any symbol or in any form of words, but as its office is to point out distinctly the origin or ownership of the articles to which it is affixed, it follows that no sign... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1038 pages
...[21 Sup. Ct. 273, 45 К Ed. 365] where the court, speaking through Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, said : 'No sign or form of words can be appropriated as a valid trade-mark, which from the nature of the face conveyed by its primary meaning, others may employ with equal truth, and with equal right for... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 748 pages
...be distinguished from those of others. Elgin National \\'atch Co. v. Illinois Watch Case Co. 665. 3. As its office is to point out distinctively the origin...ownership of the articles to which it is affixed, no sign or form of words can be nppropriated as a valid trade mark, which from the fact conveyed by... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 730 pages
...mark is to point out distinctively the origin or ownership of the article to which it is affixed, and no sign or form of words can be appropriated as a valid trade mark which, from the fact conveyed by its primary meaning, others may employ with. equal truth,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Torts - 1907 - 1028 pages
...mark is to point out distinctively the origin or ownership of the article to which it is affixed, and no sign or form of words can be appropriated as a valid trade mark which, from the fact conveyed by its primary meaning, others may employ with equal truth,... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - Law - 1908 - 774 pages
...equal truth as applied to their own goods, may be appropriated as a trade-mark.8 But no sign, symbol, or form of words can be appropriated, as a valid trademark, which, from the fact conveyed by its primary meaning, others may employ with equal truth and with equal right for the... | |
 | Xenophon Pearce Huddy - Automobiles - 1909 - 404 pages
...Gassenheimer v. District of Columbia, 26 App. Cas., 2. Right to me word " taxicab." — No sign, symbol, or form of words can be appropriated as a valid trademark which, from the fact conveyed by its primary meaning, others may employ with equal truth and with equal right for the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1334 pages
...manufacturers or the vendible commodities of particular merchants may be distinguished from those of others. It may consist in any symbol or in any form of words, but as its ollice is to point out distinctively the origin or ownership of the articles to which it is aflixed,... | |
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... no sign or form of words can be appropriated as a valid trade mark, which from the nature of the fact conveyed by its primary meaning, others may employ with equal truth, and with equal right, for the same purpose. 
