Singer Manufacturing Co. v. June Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. The Singer Manufacturing Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, filed its bill in equity in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois against the June Manufacturing Company, an Illinois corporation.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. The Singer Manufacturing Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, filed its bill in equity in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois against the June Manufacturing Company, an Illinois corporation. The bill alleged that the complainant was engaged in the manufacture of sewing machines, and had an exclusive right to the word “Singer” as a trade name and “designation” for such sewing machines; it averred that defendant, for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice "White,
after stating the foregoing facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
The facts recapitulated in the statement just made are undisputed. Those which are seriously controverted and upon which the legal issues depend are, first, were the sewing machines made by the Singer Company so, in whole or in part, protected by patents as to cause the name “ Singer” to become, during the existence of the monopoly, the generic designation of such machines, as contradistinguished from a name indicating exclusively the source or origin Of their manufacture; second, irrespective of the…
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