Legal Opinion

Coca-Cola Co. v. Dixi-Cola Laboratories, Inc.

District Court, D. Maryland

Decided February 27, 1940No. 198PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

This is a trade-mark and unfair competition case brought by plaintiff against three corporations, Dixi-Cola Laboratories, Inc., MarBert Products, Inc., and Apola Extract & Syrup Corporation, and eleven individual defendants.

The bill of complaint charges all of the defendants with infringement of plaintiff’s trade-mark “Coca-Cola” by the sale of defendants’ products under the names DixiCola, MarBert-Cola, MarBert The Distinctive Cola, Apola-Cola, Lola-Kola, Kola and May-Cola. The defendants are also charged with being guilty of unfair competition by…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. William R. Warner & Co. v. Eli Lilly & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924
  2. Bayer Co. v. United Drug Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1921
  3. Federal Trade Commission v. Winsted Hosiery Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
  4. Coca-Cola Co. v. Koke Co. of AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
  5. Coca Cola Co. v. Gay-Ola Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1912

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Dixi-Cola Laboratories, Inc. v. Coca-Cola Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1941
  2. Coca-Cola Co. v. Dixi-Cola Laboratories, Inc.District Court, D. Maryland · 1944
  3. Hygienic Products Co. v. Judson Dunaway CorporationDistrict Court, D. New Hampshire · 1948

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