S. C. JOHNSON & SON v. JOHNSON

No. 38.

116 F.2d 427 (1940)

S. C. JOHNSON & SON, Inc., v. JOHNSON.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

December 30, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Babcock, Sullivan & Weaver, of Buffalo, N. Y. (John R. Weaver, of Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for appellant.

Waugh & McClellan, of Chicago, Ill., and Harold I. Popp, of Buffalo, N. Y. (William F. Waugh and Vernon B. Bates, both of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellee.

Before L. HAND, CHASE, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The defendant appeals from a judgment enjoining him from selling his "Household Cleaner" under a label in which appears the word "Johnson's"; from imitating the plaintiff's trade-mark (which is the same word) or "affixing" it to goods "of substantially the same descriptive properties" as are mentioned in the plaintiff's "registrations"; and from representing that his goods "emanate from or are in any way connected with plaintiff." The facts...

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