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"There are, as also is usual, a number of minor differences between the forms and the dress of the two packages, but no One can look at both packages without perceiving that there are strong resemblances, which could easily have been avoided had there been an honest effort to give defendant's goods a distinctive dress. Both name and dress are clearly calculated to mislead, and the statements that both were adopted with an eye to differentiation, strain the credulity of the court beyond the breaking point." The law books are full of other cases of infringement, many of them much more flagrant than the "Uneeda" case, but all very similar in principle. Some A less well-known case of infringement was that Famous of " Limetta," so called, a preparation of lime juice Infringe- which was protected by injunction from infringement merd8 by an article trade-marked "Limette." Sometimes imitators conceive the bright but illegal idea of adopting a name having exactly the same sound but spelled differently. For instance, the manufacturer of "Yusea" gas mantles discovered a competitor selling under the name of "U. C. A" gas mantles and soon ruined the latter's business by an injunction. Nor is it necessary that all the words of a trade-mark be imitated in order to obtain an injunction. It may be enough if the same sort of idea is suggested by the imitation, so that a tailoring firm doing business as the "Six Little Tailors" Was protected by the courts against the "Six Big Taylors" Nobody seems yet to have chosen the title "Six Silent Barbers" Perhaps it would be invalid as a misrepresentation in itself....