Regent Shoe Manufacturing Co. v. Haaker

Oldham, C.

At and prior to the year 1897, the George Richardson Company was engaged, in the manufacture of men’s shoes at Dubuque, Iowa, and in May of that year the company began to brand or mark certain of its makes with the name of “Regent.” It subsequently sought to obtain the exclusive right to this term as a trade-mark, and to the .accomplishment of this end purchased a patent thereto from one Stephen E. Miller in the year 1900. After the purchase of the patent on this trade-mark, the Richard*428son company claimed the exclusive right to the use of the term “Regent” in marking its shoes. It…