Legal Opinion
Aunt Jemima Mills Co. v. Rigney & Co.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided July 26, 1916PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Equity. Bill by the Aunt Jemima Mills Company against Rigney & Co.
1Opinion of the Court
VEKDKR, District Judg-e.
This is a suit for infringement of a registered trade-mark and for unfair competition. It appears that the Davis Milling Company, a Missouri corporation engaged at St. Joseph in the manufacture and sale of various kinds of flour, adopted about"1890 the name “Aunt Jemima’s,” together with a fanciful picture of a colored woman, as a mark for its pancake flour. On April 3, 1906, a certificate of registration was granted, to it by the Patent-Office for this mark as a “trade-mark for self-rising flour.” in 1914 the Davis Milling Company was reorganized as the Aunt Jemima…
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