Diamond Crystal Salt Co. v. Worcester Salt Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
[1] We do not think it necessary to add much to the careful opinion of -Judge Learned Hand in this case. It makes no difference what the word “Shaker” in connection with salt originally meant; that is, whether is was salt to be used in a shaker or salt made by the religious sect known as Shakers. It is a descriptive word, which has been shown to have obtained a secondary meaning as salt made by the complainant.
[2] We do not agree that protection of this trade-name shall be restricted, as it has been by the decree of the court below, to that part of the United States north…
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