United States v. Steffens
Supreme Court of the United States
The first two cases were brought here on certificates of division in opinion between tbe judges of tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tKe Southern District of New York.. The last was brought here on a certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio.
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The first two cases were brought here on certificates of division in opinion between tbe judges of tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tKe Southern District of New York.. The last was brought here on a certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. Steffens was indicted under the fourth and fifth sections of an act of Congress entitled “ An Act to punish the counterfeiting pf trade-marks and the sale- or dealing in of counterfeit trade-mark goods,” approved Aug; 14, 1876, 19 Stat. 141. The' first count…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The three cases whose titles stand at the head of this opinion are criminal prosecutions for violations of what is known as the trade-mark legislation of Congress. The first two are indictments in the southern district of New York, and the last is an information in the southern district of Ohio. In all of them the judges of the circuit courts in which they are pending have certified to a difference of opinion on what is substantially the same question; namely, are the acts of Congress on the subject of trade-marks founded on any rightful authority in the Constitution of the United States?
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