Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Oil City Refiners, Inc.

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from a judgment of unfair competition growing out of the use of conflicting trademarks. The questions presented are: First, whether the second user of one of various trademarks and composites of such trademarks sporadically used by the first user may be enjoined from competing with the latter; second, whether the court applied an erroneous conception of pertinent law in finding as a fact that the Oil City Refiners, Inc., appellee in No. 9335, changed the coloring and design of its trademark knowingly and in bad faith, thereby seeking' to profit by…