Trinidad Asphalt Mfg. Co. v. Standard Paint Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
About the year 1891 the Standard Paint Company, a West Virginia corporation, commenced to make and put upon the market a prepared roofing material of felt, saturated.with a gum composed of the residuum of animal fats. Because of the close resemblance of the gum to rubber and the durability and flexibility of the roofing, it then adopted the word “Ruberoid” as a trade-name, and in 1901 caused it to be registered in the Patent Office as a trade-mark. •In the application for registration it was said the trade-mark was appropriated to solid substances in the nature of soft,…
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