Dadirrian v. Theodorian

The equities of this case are plainly with the plaintiff.

The evidence leaves no doubt in my mind that the defend-. ant’s desire to use the word Matzoon on his goods is due to the trade meaning which that word has acquired through the efforts of the plaintiff, and not at all to the descriptive character of the term. Indeed, until the plaintiff’s use of it, it had no descriptive character which anybody in this country could comprehend except the few hundreds of persons here who were acquainted with the Armenian language. To every one else it was a fanciful or arbitrary designation without any…