General Electric Co. v. Re-New Lamp Co.

BROWN, District Judge.

The General Electric Company has acquired a title to the trade-mark “G. E.,” which is applied to electric goods of various kinds. It appears in the complainant’s affidavits that its lamps have gradually become known as “General Electric” or “G. E.,” as well as “Edison” lamps; and that all these terms today denote exclusively lamps of the General Electric Company’s manufacture. It does not appear that the mark “G. E.” had been used during the life of the Edison lamp patent as a generic name of the patented article in such manner as to authorize its use by the defendants…