Time, Inc. v. T.I.M.E. Inc.

In this action “for infringement of a trade-mark registered in the United States Patent Office and for unfair competition” plaintiff, a New York corporation, seeks an injunction restraining defendant, a Delaware corporation, “from using any simulation of the name and mark ‘Time’, and from using the name and mark ‘Time’ without the insertion of periods' after each of the letters * # # »*

The equity jurisdiction of this court is invoked, Briggs v. United Shoe etc. Co., 1915, 239 U.S. 48, 50 , 36 S.Ct. 6 , 60 L.Ed. 138 ; Rees v. Watertown, 1873, 19 Wall. 107 , 86 U.S. 107, 122 , 22 L.Ed. 72 , under the Lanham Trade-Mark Act, 15 U.S. C.A. §§ 1121, 1125, 1126(b) (1-2), (g-i), and under the pendent-jurisdiction statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1338 (b) ; cf. Armstrong Paint & Varnish Works v. Nu-Enamel Corp., 1938, 305 U.S. 315, 324-325 , 59 S.Ct. 191 , 83 L.Ed. 195 , and upon the ground of diversity of citizenship, 28 U.S.C. § 1332 ; Suttle v. Reich Bros. Const. Co., 1948, 333 U.S. 163, 166 , 68 S.Ct. 587 , 92 L.Ed. 614 ; Blake v. McClung, 1898, 172 U.S. 239, 259 , 19 S.Ct. 165 , 43 L.Ed. 432 .

The case was submitted for decision at pre-trial hearing upon the facts as shown by the admissions in…