Legal Opinion
The Standard Oil Company, a Corporation and Sohio Petroleum Company, a Corporation v. Standard Oil Company, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 15, 1958No. 5506PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
Two major, integrated oil companies, each of which is incorporated under the name Standard Oil Company, are here engaged in a bitter fight over the use of trade-marks and trade-names.
Standard Oil Company, an Indiana corporation, obtained an injunction restraining The Standard Oil Company, an Ohio corporation, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Sohio Petroleum Company, also an Ohio corporation, from using the designation “Sohio” in the marketing of petroleum products in a fifteen state midwestern area. 1 The basis of the injunction was that the use of “Sohio” was…
2Cases cited54 opinions
- United States v. United States Gypsum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Appts. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- United States v. Oregon State Medical SocietySupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- McLean v. FlemingSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
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