TRADE-MARKS: MONOPOLY OR COMPETITION?

Authors

Leslie Davidson Taggart, Columbia University

Abstract

Three articles have appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal in which the thesis is asserted that trade-marks are monopolies in restraint of trade under the Anti-Trust Acts. Their publication seems to have been caused in part by the proposed revision of the United States Trade-Mark Statutes, which was started by a bill originally introduced into the House on January 19, 1938. The thesis of this present article is that a trade-mark in fact distinguishes one man's product from the products of his competitors, with the result that the consumer can make a choice among them.

Recommended Citation

Leslie D. Taggart, TRADE-MARKS: MONOPOLY OR COMPETITION?, 43 Mich. L. Rev. 659 (1945).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol43/iss4/3