H. A. Metz Laboratories, Inc. v. Blackman

This is an action for an injunction to restrain a trade-mark infringement and unfair competition and also for an accounting. The following allegations are contained in the complaint:

Plaintiff and its predecessors for the past thirty-six years have been selling a certain drug known in the pharmacopoeia as amidopyrine, and used for the treatment and alleviation of headache, neuralgia, colds, influenza, rheumatism and other ailments, under the trademark “ Pyramidon.” Said trade-mark was duly registered in the United States Patent Office under registration number 32214 in the year 1898 and in the…