Case ID: ohio-law-abs_6/html/0387-01.html
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Author: {"author": "MATTHIAS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

U. S. PRINT. & LITHO. CO. v. GRIGGS-COOPER CO.
    Ohio Supreme Court
    No. 20435.
    Decided June 20, 1928.
    Error to Hamilton Appeals.
    Judgment affirmed.
    1181. TRADEMARKS.
    Right of registrant not limited to territory where trade is established, but extends throughout states.
    291. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — 1104 Statutes.
    Sect. 16 of Trademark Act (US. Comp. St. 9501) not violative of Federal Constitution.
   MATTHIAS, J.

1. By virtue of the provisions of Section 16 of the Trademark Act of 1905 (U. S. Comp. St. 9501) the rights of the registrant of a trademark thereunder are not limited to the territory where his trade in the commodity covered by the trademark is established but extend throughout the states regardless of the actual extension of trade.

2. The provisions of Section 16 of that act (U. S. Comp. St. 9501) are not violative of the Federal Constitution but authorized by Section 8 of Actiele I thereof.

Judgment affirmed.

(Day, Kinkade and Jones, JJ., concur.)