Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1915 — Law’s Protection to Motor Car Manufacturers. [ARTICLE]

Law’s Protection to Motor Car Manufacturers.

- r \ A decision of vital importance to all motor car manufacturers was recently handed down by the tTnited'States district eourt of northern Illinois, Judge' Kenesaw Mountain Landis presiding. The court declared that the Barry Sales Company, formerly agents of the Ford Motor Company, be perpetually restrained and enjoined from using the word “Ford” in any advertising or representing themselves as agents for the Ford or imitating the Ford trade mark in Chicago, Illinois, or elsewhere. This decision is of great importance inasmuch as it established a precedent and removes any ances with which the Ford Motor Company, as well as many other great motor car manufacturers, have had to contend. The effect of it is to offer absolute protection to the manufacturer's trade mark.