Dadirrian v. Yacubian
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This is a suit in equity by Markar G-. Dadirrian against Gamaliel M. Yacubian and another to restrain the infringement of a trade mark or name.
1Opinion of the Court
COLT, Circuit Judge.
In a suit by this complainant against these defendants in the United States circuit court for the Northern district of Illinois, Judge Showalter, on motion for a preliminary injunction, in a well-considered and able opinion (72 Fed. 1010), held that the word “Matzoon” (or “Madzoon”), haying been used in Armenia for centuries to designate an article of food or diet made from sterilized and fermented milk, cannot be appropriated as a trade-mark by the complainant, who first introduced both the name and the article into trade in this country; nor can the defendants be…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Canal Co. v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Dadirrian v. YacubianU.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1896
3Cited by4 opinions
- Le Blume Import Co. v. CotyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
- Dadirrian v. YacubianCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1900
- Selchow v. Chaffee & Selchow Mfg. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1904
- Avenarius v. KornelyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1909