Samson Cordage Works v. Puritan Cordage Mills
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky; Walter Evans, Judge. Suits in equity by the Samson Cordage Works against the Puritan Cordage Mills. Complainant appeals from decree for defendant in. first case, and order denying preliminary injunction in second case. Decree (194 Fed. 573) affirmed, and order (197 Fed. 205) reversed.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Complainant, a cordage manufacturer, filed its bill (in No. 2358) for infringement of an alleged trademark upon a high-grade sash cord of its manufacture. The mark was alleged to consist in “a series of spots arranged spirally about the circumference of the cord, each shaped in the form of a lozenge.” The spots were in fact made in the ordinary method of machine braiding of sash cord, by combining one colored strand with eleven undyed strands; the restilt being that in the regular and normal process of manufacture the colored strand appeared and disappeared from time to…
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