Wyckoff v. Howe Scale Co. of 1886’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““Plaintiffs acquired from the original manufacturers of Remington typewriters the sole right to use the name ‘Remington’ as a name for typewriters. Thereafter descendants of the original manufacturers, also named “Remington,’ became members of a corporation making a typewriter under the name of ‘Sholes,’ when the name was changed to the ‘Remington-Siholes.’ Held that, since ultimate purchasers of typewriters might be led to think that the addition of the name ‘Sholes’ was a new style of the old machine, coming from the same source, such use of the name ‘Remington’ was an attempt to deceive the public and unwarranted. No special right to use a family name which has become a trade-mark applied to a manufactured article accrues by virtue of the relation which descendants bear to the original manufacturer of the same name, such descendants being entitled to no other than their natural rights to use their own names in the transaction of their own business.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Von Faber v. Faber