Coats v. Merrick Thread Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. ■' Thís-wús a bill in equity by the firm of J. & P. Coats, of Paisley, Scotland, to enjoin the defendants, the Merrick Thread Company, a Massachusetts corporation, and Herbert F. Palmer, its managing agent in New York, from infringing plaintiffs’ trade-márk, and unfairly competing with them, by simulating certain labels and symbols used by the plaintiffs upon the ends of wooden spools…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. ■' Thís-wús a bill in equity by the firm of J. & P. Coats, of Paisley, Scotland, to enjoin the defendants, the Merrick Thread Company, a Massachusetts corporation, and Herbert F. Palmer, its managing agent in New York, from infringing plaintiffs’ trade-márk, and unfairly competing with them, by simulating certain labels and symbols used by the plaintiffs upon the ends of wooden spools upon which sewing thread is wound. The bill set forth in substance that plaintiffs had, since 1830, been engaged in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beown
The gravamen' of the plaintiffs’ bill is contained in the allegation that the defendants have been guilty of an unlawful and unfair competition in business, in that they have be^n infringing the rights of plaintiffs in and to certain marks, symbols and labels, by selling in competition with the plaintiffs a spool thread of “ six cords ” put up on spools of 200 yards’ length, which thread is not manufactured by these plaintiffs, but is put upon the market and' sold among retailers and.customers, as well in the city of New. York as in other and distant-parts of the United States, as and for the…
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