Manhattan Medicine Co. v. Wood

Citations

• 108 U.S. 218
• 2 S. Ct. 436
• 27 L. Ed. 706
• 1883 U.S. LEXIS 1027

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Trade-Mark.</p> <p>A.court of equity will extend no aid to sustain a claim to a trade-mark of an article which is put forth with a misrepresentation to the public as to the manufacturer of the article, and as to the place where it is manufactured, both being originally circumstances to guide the purchaser of the medicine.</p> <p>When it is the object of a trade-mark to indicate the origin of manufactured goods, and a person affixes to goods of his own manufacture a trade-mark which declares that they are goods of the manufacture of some other person, it is a fraud upon the public which no court of equity will countenance.</p> <p>The plaintiff claimed to be the owner of a patent medicine and of a trademark to distinguish it. The medicine was manufactured by the plaintiff in New York; the trade-mark declared that it was manufactured by another, party in Massachusetts : Meld, That he was entitled to no relief against a person using the same trade-mark in Maine.'</p>