TRADE MARKS
WELLINGTON/Dec. 11. Questions as to what coulld andL ••wtab could not be registered as trade marks were argued, before has Honour Mr Justice Sim in the Supreme 'Court fto-day. Hughes, Ltd., on behalf of the Auitostro:D Raz-or 00.,. Ltd., of 'New York, applied ifor leave to proceed -with their appltaation to the Registrar of Patents to .register their word "airfiostrop" as the tradte mark foi\tfazors, safety razors and bdades. Mr T. Young appeared for the applicaii/ts, aTl <i Tfir H. H. Ostler for the Register. Mr Young sadd that under the Patents Act, 19.08 certnaui words (being descriptive or igeogiiiaphiioai) were not recognisaible, bulb imder the amending Aiof of 1911 ,the ■^v cou d S^nt leave to rxroceed w-itla an a<p;plication for iregistraition if it were of opinion that the name wa» difitiinctive. The goods which had ibeen extensively -advertised and sold in New Zealand under the .trade mark of "Autostrop were first introduced /in 1907 Ike name was applied to no other similar joodsi. After hearing argument, nis Honour reserved his ddci&ion
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 12 December 1912, Page 5
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175TRADE MARKS Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 12 December 1912, Page 5
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