 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 760 pages
...flexibility and not pervious to water. The word, therefore, is descriptive, not indicative of the origin or the ownership of the goods; and, being of that quality,...arbitrary sign •of something else than its conventional Cleaning, as different, to bring the example to the present case, as the character of an article is... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Almanacs, American - 1912 - 908 pages
...rubber, and that it was none the less descriptive because misspelled. "Bad orthography," said the court, "has not yet become so rare or so easily detected...of something else than its conventional meaning." The next question was whether the defendant had been guilty of unfair trade in designating its roofing... | |
 | Edward Sidney Rogers - Competition, Unfair - 1914 - 296 pages
...eccentricities made a good trade-mark out of a descriptive word: "Bad orthography has not yet become so rare or easily detected as to make a word the arbitrary sign...of something else than its conventional meaning." Descriptive words are not protected as trademarks for the excellent reason that to give to one producer... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1917 - 742 pages
...31 Sup. Ct. (55 L. Ed. 536) : "The word, therefore, is descriptive, not indicative of the origin or the ownership of the goods ; and, being of that quality,...character of an article is from its origin or ownership." The decree is affirmed with costs. (234 Fed. 70) PREEDMAN et al. v. DAVOPLANE BED CO. (Circuit Court... | |
 | Commercial law - 1925 - 516 pages
...31 S. Ct. 456, 55 L. Ed. 536: 'The word, therefore, is descriptive, not indicative of the origin or the ownership of the goods; and, being of that quality, we cannot admit that rt loses such quality and becomes arbitrary by being mispelled. Bad orthography has not yet become... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1096 pages
...31 Sup. Ct. (55 L. Ed. 536) : "The word, therefore, is descriptive, not Indicative of the origin or the ownership of the goods ; and, being of that quality, we cannot admit thnt it loses such quality and becomes arbitrary by being misspelled. Bad orthography has not yet become... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 892 pages
...flexibility and not pervious to water. The word, therefore, is descriptive, not indicative of the origin or the ownership of the goods; and, being of that quality,...character of an article is from its origin or ownership. We content ourselves with applying the principle of the cases which we have cited, and will not review... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 894 pages
...flexibility and not pervious to water. The word, therefore, is descriptive, not indicative of the origin or the ownership of the goods; and, being of that quality,...word the arbitrary sign of something else than its convention:)] meaning, as different, to bring the example to the present case, as the character of... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - Customs administration - 1961 - 772 pages
...omission of one of the letters "b" : The word, therefore, is descriptive, not indicative of the origin or the ownership of the goods; and, being of that quality,...character of an article is from Its origin or ownership. Applicant's use of EXTRORDINAIRE is simply a misspelling of the word "extraordinaire" which applicant... | |
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The word, therefore, is descriptive, not indicative of the origin or the ownership of the goods; and, being of that quality, we cannot admit that it loses such quality and becomes arbitrary by being misspelled. Bad orthography has not yet become so rare... 
