"TRILBY."
" Trilby,"like" Ta-rara-boom-de-ay," has seized upon the community like a mental cholera, and when a name or word so strikes the popular mind the shopkeepers and manufacturers are quick to turn the same to account. "Trilby" figures as the trade-mark or distinctive title of a variety of articles, and in this connection an effort was made to monopolise the word as a trade-mark, in consequence of which a legal decision was sought. Mr Justice North held that it could not be monopolised as a trade-mark, and the question was then referred to the Court of Appeal, where the decision of Mr Justice North was reversed. The result of this will be that every new coined word that strikes the popular fancy will be scrambled for by enterprising manufacturers for trade-marks. " Trilby" can be registered as the trade-mark of hundreds of different persons if each confined his monopoly to a different manufactured article.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 36, 8 June 1896, Page 2
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152"TRILBY." Hastings Standard, Issue 36, 8 June 1896, Page 2
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