Case Name: Beacon Magazines, Inc., Respondent, v. Popular Publications Inc., Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1936-06-23
Citations: 248 A.D. 204
Docket Number: 
Parties: Beacon Magazines, Inc., Respondent, v. Popular Publications Inc., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 248
Pages: 204–205

Head Matter:
Beacon Magazines, Inc., Respondent, v. Popular Publications Inc., Appellant.
First Department,
June 23, 1936.
Edwin J. Harragan of counsel [Swiger, King & Chambers, attorneys], for the appellant.
I. Maurice Wormser of counsel [Robert A. Pines with him on the brief, attorney], for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The plaintiff has not shown any exclusive right to the use of the title " G-Men." The plaintiff did not create or "-coin " the appellation. So far as appears, it had a popular source from the activities of Federal investigators in then nation wide effort to suppress crime. The plaintiff, therefore, has no property right to the sole use of the phrase.
The order should, therefore, be modified so as to restrict the use of " Ace-G-Man " in the title of the defendant's magazine to uses such as will not imitate in appearance, form or print the design now used in the title of plaintiff's magazine, and as so modified affirmed, without costs.
Present—• Martin, P. J., McAvoy, O'Malley, Townley and Glennon, JJ.; Martin, P. J., and Glennon, J., dissent and vote for affirmance.