Colgate & Co. v. United States

In marketing its various products the corporation, in or about the year 1890, established the system of issuing coupons to consumers of its laundry products, exchangeable for certain articles of jewelry listed in its catalogue.

On each wrapper or container of its laundry soaps and powders a place was reserved for printing a coupon. Attention was drawn to the coupon in rather bold-faced type by the following words, appearing upon another portion of the wrapper or container, viz, “ Save the coupon on the other side of the package.” Extending along the narrow sides of the wrapper or container, in…