South Carolina v. Seymour
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the court of appeals of THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction a writ of error to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, denying a writ of mandamus to the Commissioner of Patents to register a trade-mark under the' act of March 3, 1881, c. 138. '21 Stat. 502. The cash is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The earliest legislation of Congress for the registration and protection of trade-marks was contained in the Patent Act of 1870, and substantially reenacted in the Revised Statutes. Act of July 8, 1870, c. 230, §§ 77-84; 16 Stat. 210-212; Rev. Stat. §§ 4937-4947. That legislation, as well as the act of August 14,1876, c. 274, (19 Stat. 141,) for punishing the counterfeiting of trade-marks, was held by this court at October term, 1879, to be unconstitutional and void, because not lim ited to trade-marks used in commerce with foreign nations, or among the several States, or with the Indian…
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