Show HOSTETTER CO WINS A CASU CASC ants on their bitters bitten not toler sted by united state court 1 the united states circuit court tor for the southern district of new york I 1 judge townsend presiding handed down an opinion december 23 1897 granting injunction and accounting in the suit of the hostetter company against isaac sommers and louis joseph for infringement of its trade mark the jurist states ir bold and clear language the rights accruing to the hostetter company and the liability incurred by all who would rob I 1 them by fraud or misrepresentation 1 of the well earned reputation and profits of a business built up by the i efforts of half a century the julge says in part the complainant is entitled to protection against the appropriation of its I 1 trade mark by any and all unfair and j dishonorable means mean and a court of equity has power to g grant rant such protection whenever it is is satisfied that an attempt has s been made by ingenious subterfuges to invade the rights of an owner of a trade mark in the sharp contest between the individual manufacturer who strives to ac quire and retain the fruits of industry and honesty and the field of keen rivals seeking to wrest from him the prize of the public gr bcd will the inventive ingenuity of the has conceived a great variety of ee devices vices for evading the established rules of I 1 fair dealing courts cf equity finding that their ultimate object and effect were to enable and induce the retail seller of a fraudulent imitation to palm it off on an unsuspecting public for the genuine article and thus to contribute to the infringement upon the rights of the or original ginal owner have not hesitated to adoph adolv the remedy |