Legal Opinion
Bourjois, Inc. v. Hermida Laboratories, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 9, 1939No. 6950PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge., The commercial activities of the present defendant do not leave a very pleasant taste. It is a corporation formed by one Straus, the manager of a 5, 10, and 250 store at Linden, N. J. The purpose of its creation under the confidence inspiring name, Hermida-Laboratories, was the distribution for profit of plaintiff’s feminine face powder. One must feel that the tragic struggle of the human race against its inevitable end is poignantly limned by its pathetic reliance on symbols sounding in cure. Although the purpose here is the alleviation of appearance rather than of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Prestonettes, Inc. v. CotySupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Worden v. California Fig Syrup Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Le Blume Import Co. v. CotyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
- Coty v. Prestonettes, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922
- Weissbard v. Coty, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1933
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- Bourjois, Inc. v. WillingmyreDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1940
- Coty, Inc. v. WillingmyreDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1940
- Bulova Watch Co. v. Allerton Co.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1963