Legal Opinion
Germanow v. Standard Unbreakable Watch Crystals, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 23, 1940PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtConway, J.
These are cross-appeals in an action commenced in April, 1937, to restrain acts of unfair competition. The plaintiffs, copartners, are the largest manufacturers of their product in the world, employing approximately eighty people, and since 1916 have been engaged in the manufacture of unbreakable watch crystals, known as “ G-S ” crystals, made of celluloid or similar material. They have also developed and marketed a cabinet containing drawers to store the product. This cabinet is known in the jewelry trade as the “ G-S ” cabinet, and plaintiffs’ trade-mark “ G-S ” is affixed by label and…
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