Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — AN IMPORTANT CASE. [ARTICLE]

AN IMPORTANT CASE.

IT COMES UP BEFORE THE UNITED STATES COURT. A Suit for on Estoppel—The Eureka Chemical Company, of La Crosse, Makes the Trouble. Papers have been filed in the United States Court of the Western District of Wisconsin, by-Tarrant & Ivronshage, attorneys for the Sterling Remedy Company, of Chicago and New Yolk, in a suit for estoppel and damages against an imitation of No-to-bae, the tobacco habit cure. The action is brought against a concern called the Eureka Chemical Company, of La Crosse, Wis. The principles involved in theseproceedings are of the utmost importance to the proprietary interests of America in general, and form in many respects, a test case, the outcome of which will be carefully watched by the many other important manufacturing concerns similarly imitated. Not only the question of imitation of name, trade-mark, form of preparation aud package enter into the case, but also the proposition whether the actual advertising literature used in establishing the publicity of a preparation can be stolen with impunity, word for word, by an imitator. The decision jn this case will settle one of .the vital points in United States trade-mark and copyright law.—Madison (Wis.) Democrat.