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the advantage of bearing a respected name; they have seen
their correspondence intercepted, confusion put into their
business relations, their customers diverted, all to the profit of
an industrialist whom by good luck managed to get his hands
on a homonym and was willing to trade illicitly on his name.
xxxx Recent lawsuits concerning our best champagne houses
reveal quite curious facts, and, extremely fortunately, an
energetic repression has arisen to derail the schemes of many
audacious shysters.
xxxx The House of Pernod and Sons was not to escape the
common law; for some years a number of firms have emerged,
proudly raising either the name of Pernod, or a name which
resembles it as much as possible.
xxxx Did we not see a simple stable boy named Pernod
making money by authorizing a manufacturer of absinthe in
Drome to plaster his name on their labels!
xxxx Even more recently a distiller of Doubs, under pretext of
a contract signed by a traveling salesman named Pernot, seized
the name and flooded Paris and the province with his product
which, evidently, would have gone over with great difficulty
without this trickery.
xxxx The civil Court of the Seine, taking up the question, did
not hold as legitimate this very ingenious procedure and prohi-
bited its use. Its judgement will certainly be confirmed by the
Appellate Court of Paris which will not be long in intervening.

(Translated by "Artemis" for your pleasure.)




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