Popular Mechanics Co. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.

NIELDS, District Judge.

Popular Mechanics Company, the plaintiff, an Illinois corporation, publisher of the well-known monthly magazine “Popular Mechanics Magazine,” usually called “Popular Mechanics,” seeks a preliminary injunction restraining the defendant, Faweett Publications, Inc., a Delaware corporation, from publishing a monthly magazine of the same general type and dealing with similar subject-matter under the title “Modem Mechanics” or “Modem Mechanics and Inventions.” The magazines come into active competition with each other. The ease turns largely on the use of the word “Mechanics.”