Legal Opinion
Broderick & Bascom Rope Co. v. Manoff
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 12, 1930No. 5197PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
The appellant rope company makes a special rope adapted for towing disabled motorcars. It might have called its product a tow rope for automobiles, or an automobile tow line. Developing this latter name through the stage Auto-Tow-Line it devised a fairly arbitrary though suggestive name — Autowline. This was registered as a trademark; and, in so far as the word had a descriptive character, the rope company eventually also claimed rights upon a secondary meaning that the article so marked was its product. The Metal Fibre Rope Company infringed this trade-mark, using…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Coca Cola Co. v. Gay-Ola Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1912
3Cited by42 opinions
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