ERCONA CAMERA CORPORATION v. BROWNELL

No. 13538.

246 F.2d 675 (1957)

ERCONA CAMERA CORPORATION and Steelmasters, Incorporated, Appellants, v. Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General, George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury, and Ralph Kelly, Commissioner of Customs, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harry I. Rand, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Mr. George B. Searls, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Miss Marbeth Ann Miller, Atty., Dept. of Justice, was on the brief, for appellees.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and PRETTYMAN and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs-appellants were in the business of importing cameras and similar articles from East Germany bearing the trademark "Zeiss." The Attorney General of the United States, claiming ownership of this trademark as seized enemy property, invoked the provisions of 19 U.S.C.A. § 1526, making it "unlawful to import into the United States" merchandise bearing a trademark owned in the United States, without the written consent of the owner of the trademark...

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