TRADE MARKS.
THE COMMONWEALTH ACT. "UNIONIST LAbbJL" INVALIT. Received August 5, 10.15 a.m. SYDNEY, Augusts. ' The Hitrh Couit, by a majorityJustices Isaacs and Higgirn disse.iting—declared that clause 7 of the Commonwealth Trades Mark Act, relating to workers' trades marks, or what is known as "the unionist label" was invalid, and chat the union label was not a trade mark within the mean ha of the law. The Chief Justice, in delivering judgment, declared the clauss to be an attempt to regulate the internal trade of the States. "It does not," he said, "fall within, and is nut incidental to, any express powers coni ferred on the Federal Parliament ti 1 regulate that trade, and, except mj far a3 these powers extend, the power of the State i? exclusive." The court made an order, restraining the Registrar from continuing to keep a register of workers' trades ! marks.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9160, 6 August 1908, Page 5
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146TRADE MARKS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9160, 6 August 1908, Page 5
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