Opinion ID: 1486162
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Heading: The Trade-Marks.

Text: The features of the patent stressed most in the specifications were those which induced a freely sliding sash, and eliminated sticking, even though the wooden sash and jamb swelled in wet weather, and the Company, in its advertising and promotional work, referred to the windows using its liners as Non-Stick windows; and using the initials of its product, called itself the N. S. W. Company. Appellees used the name Non-Stick and Never Stick Window for a time in connection with window assemblies sold after its contract with the Company had been broken and after it had ceased to use the genuine N. S. W. liner. It seems clear enough that the Company is not entitled to protection upon a name which is plainly descriptive, unless the name has acquired a secondary meaning,  a question to be discussed. The non-sticking characteristic was emphasized in the patent and in the Company's advertising, but it was equally descriptive of the freely sliding quality of any other window assembly, and the terms Non-Stick and Non-Stick Window may not be protected as such. Detroit Show Case Co. v. Kawneer Mfg. Co., 6 Cir., 250 F. 234, 239; Wyatt v. Mammoth Cave Development Co., 6 Cir., 26 F. 2d 322, 325.