Legal Opinion
Noll v. Rinex Laboratories Co.
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided July 1, 1935No. 4962PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEST, District Judge.
Suit for infringement of trade mark. Plaintiff, who does business under the name Pinex Co. at Fort Wayne, Indiana, for over 25 years has made and sold a medicinal preparation for use in compounding a remedy for coughs and bronchial irritation, under the trade mark “Pinex”. He acquired the mark in 1909 from one Schmidt, who had registered it for use on a “cough balsam” and re-registered it in 1929, in class 6, “Chemicals, medicines and pharmaceutical preparations”. Plaintiff sells to wholesale drug houses by advertising for which he expends as much as $200,000 a year, and…
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