Stanco, Inc. v. Mitchell

McMILLAN, District Judge.

Here, the manufacturer and seller of the insecticide “Flit” seeks injunctive relief against the manufacturers and sellers of the insecticide “Mit.”

By pleading and proof, plaintiff shows valid trademark registrations under the federal act of the word “Flit,” and continuous and exclusive use of such trademark since its adoption in 1923.

The evidence shows without contradiction that plaintiff has spent millions of dollars in advertising this name “Flit”; that the advertisements were not only visual but were by way of sound. It has spent a great deal of money in…