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Show MONKS FIGHT FOR RIGHTS. According to William E. Curtis, correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald, a series of lawsuits has been begun by the Carthusian Monks, expelled from France by the French government, in a dozen different countries to protect their rights of sale over the liqueur called Chartreuse on which they have enjoyed a monopoly for 300 years. One of iho suits is ponding in New York, where they have applied ap-plied to the United States district court for an injunction in-junction to prohibit Champagnie Fermier from us-in.r us-in.r the name trade mark ar.d distinctive pattern of boiiles which the monks have always used. Testimony Tes-timony is oelug l.aken in Paris before Consul General Gen-eral Mason. Eugene Kel'.w the American hvvjer. appears for the French .o'.ernment. which is not nominally a party to the suit, but is virtually interested in-terested in the litigation, because, the Compagnie Fermier is operating with its authority. Proceedings Proceed-ings in Germany, Italy, England and in other European countries, and wherever else Chartreuse is sold, will follow those in the United States, which are expected to establish a precedent in the international use cf trade marks and other commercial com-mercial rights. |
