IMPORTANT TRADE MARK CASES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11795, 26 July 1900, Page 7

IMPORTANT TRADE MARK CASES.

Within the last few months the solicitors for Australia of Messrs Condy and Mitchell, the proprietors of '" Condy's Fluid " and " Condy's Crystals," have brought a large number of imitators to book, and have succeeded without difficulty in securing perpetual injunctions, ■with damages and costs, restraining them from offering for sale anything purporting to bo "Condy's Fluid" or " Condy's Crystals" not manufactured by the plaintiff company. It appears that in the cases under notice the vendors of the spurious preparations supplied either a solution of, or the crystals of, permanganate of potash, whereas it is a fact well known to the trade, if not to the man in the street, that neither "Condy's Fluid" nor " Condy's Crystals" contain even the smallest trace of permanganate of potash; in fact, Condy's preparations differ entirely therefrom in composition and strength, are vastly superior in effectiveness to all substitutes, and are manufactured by processes known only to Messrs Condy and Mitchell. In one case ihe fluid was imitated under the mild disguise of " Condy's Liquid," but in some other cases not only were the terms "Condy's Fluid" and "Condy's Crystals " actually employed by the imitators, but the original wrappers and labels were closely copied, in colour and wording; in other cases the label was imitated in colour and wording, but the words " Condy'.s Fluid " were not used. There can be. no doubt that in rigorously, instituting proceedings against all imitators attempting, to trade upon, the success of the inventors of admirable preparations (which have attained a universal reputation, are used wherever sanitary science is studied, and are recommended by every medical authority throughout the world), Messrs Condy and Mitchell are doing a public service which will be keenly appreciated by every right-minded person. '