Miller v. Anchor Packing Co.

LYNCH, District Judge.

This litigation involves the use of the trade-mark “Tamil” as applied to certain high-pressure sheet packing made of asbestos and rubber. Prior to 1904, the Ungarisehe Gummiwaarenfabrik Actiengesellsehaft, a corporation of Austria-Hungary, which we shall hereinafter refer to as the “Hungarian Company,” had established the sale of “Tamil” in the United States of America, and on July 5,1904, registered the trade-mark here for a period of 30 years.

On September 24, 1908, the Hungarian company designated the Anchor Packing Company of Delaware, the predecessor of the defendant…