Legal Opinion
Dodge Mfg. Co. v. Sewall & Day Cordage Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Decided July 5, 1898No. 844PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
Since 1886, or thereabouts, the complainant has twisted a blue thread into one of the strands of the so-called “transmission rope” which it manufactures. In 1888 it registered as a trade-mark a colored thread so twisted. This registration had no legal effect except to indicate that the complainant then claimed the trade-mark set forth in its application. A colored thread of some sort twisted in the rope is, evidently, almost or quite the only possible way of marking or identifying the rope itself, and it is in evidence that a colored thread has been commonly used for…
2Cited by5 opinions
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