Legal Opinion
S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 30, 1940No. 38PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The defendant appeals from a judgment enjoining him from selling his “Household Cleaner” under a label in which appears the word “Johnson’s”; from imitating the plaintiff’s trade-mark (which is the same word) or “affixing” it to goods “of substantially the same descriptive properties” as are mentioned in the plaintiff’s “registrations”; and from representing that his goods “emanate from or are in any way connected with plaintiff.” The facts were as follows: The plaintiff is a Wisconsin corporation organized in 1932 to take over a business- founded in 1886 by one, Samuel…
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