A short treatise on the law of trade marks : interesting to manufacturers and merchants generally.

  • Davis, Perry.
Date:
1861
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Credit: A short treatise on the law of trade marks : interesting to manufacturers and merchants generally. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The right to our trade mark having been often infringed upon^ we have had frequent occasion to examine the reports of trade-mark cases, both in the courts of this country and England. To save the trouble of lengthy correspondence, and perhaps the necessity of a suit at law, we have thought proper to publish in this form a short treatise on the law of trade marks. From the great number of cases reported, we select those bearing the closest analogy to ours, and yet the general principles laid down in the cases we cite will be found to lay at the founda- tion, and govern decisions in all cases reported. It will be found that while the law gives ample protection to the honest manufacturer, it frowns with terrible severity on frauds in any and every shape. We have endeavored to present the sub- ject as clearly and candidly as possible, yet we find