RUDOLPH DE MARCO

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Ideal Indus., Inc. v. Gardner Bender, Inc., 612 F.2d 1018 (7th Cir. 1979)
  …y were adopted to indicate different sizes of a product rather than its origin cannot be trademarks. Gardner relies heavily on this court’s statements in William H. Keller, Inc. v. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 298 F. 52 (7th Cir. 1923), cert. denied, 265 U.S. 593, 44 S.Ct. 637, 68 L.Ed. 1196 (1924): “There can be no question but what [sic] a number may become a good trademark, if its primary adoption be solely to indicate origin. On the other hand, if the figures indicate a grade or a quality only, they may…
• Sinko v. Snow-Craggs Corp., 105 F.2d 450 (7th Cir. 1939)
  …hose methods of honest and upright dealing which forbid one competitor from adapting practices which are now well understood to be unfair or fraudulent.” William H. Keller Inc. v. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 7 Cir., 298 F. 52, 57, certiorari denied, 265 U.S. 593, 44 S.Ct. 637, 68 L.Ed. 1196. The existence of a right of action depends upon the peculiar facts of each case, turning on whether what is done by one person to get the business of another is done unfairly, i. e., by means that involve fraud or decei…
• Am. Safety Table Co., Inc. v. Schreiber, 269 F.2d 255 (2d Cir. 1959)
  …line & French Laboratories v. Clark & Clark, 3 Cir., 1946, 157 F. 2d 725, certiorari denied, 1946, 329 U.S. 796, 67 S.Ct. 482, 91 L.Ed. 681; William H. Keller, Inc. v. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 7 Cir., 1923, 298 F. 52, 57, certiorari denied, 1924, 265 U.S. 593, 44 S.Ct. 637, 68 L.Ed. 1196; Myles Standish Mfg. Co. v. Champion Spark Plug Co., 8 Cir., 1922, 282 F. 961. The principles which we think govern the determination of the unfair competition issues in the case now before us, as just stated, can only…