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LEGAL INTELLIGENCE, Similarity in Trade Names. IN the Chancery Division of the High Court, of Justiceon March ist, Mr. Justice Neville heard the action in which the A.G.S. Manufacturing Co., Ltd., by their writ claimedan injunction to restrain the Aeroplane General Sundries, Ltd. from carrying on business in or advertising or selling theirgoods under the name of A.G.S. (Limited), or any other name or title calculated to interfere with the business of the plain-tiffs, or to pass off the goods of the defendants as the goods of the plaintiffs. On February 22nd last the plaintiffs moved for an interiminjunction in the terms of their writ, and after discussion the motion stood over for a week with a view to a settlement,but the parties had failed to come to an arrangement. The plaintiffs now asked for an order. Mr. Jenkins, K.C., for the defendants, said that althoughhis clients adhered to the offer that they had made on the previous hearing, which had not been accepted, they submittedon the evidence that the advertisements complained of were perfectly justifiable, and they denied that they were trying toinduce the public to apply to them as the plaintiff company. No company or firm was entitled to use the letters A.G.S.as their own in this particular industry. The letters were part of the English language and did not constitute a fancy name,nor had they in a secondary sense come to mean the plain- tiff company. \- Mr. Ward Coldridge, K.C., and Mr. Lavington, for theplaintiffs were not called on to reply. In his judgement, Mr. Justice Neville, said :—This is acurious case. Many people in the aeroplane industry know that the letters A.G.S. refer to a particular category of goodsin which both the plaintiffs and the defendants deal, and whether the plaintiffs will ultimately succeed in establishingtheir claim I do not decide now, and I express no opinion whatever upon it. But what I am dealing with now is, inmy opinion, an attempt by the defendants to obtain for themselves something that belongs to the plaintiffs' title.There is no objection to the use of the letters A.G.S., but the defendants in their advertisements are using them in everypossible way to mean and to point to their company. In one advertisement they say that the letters A.G.S. " standfor the A.G.S. Company (Limited)." In another they say that the letters A.G.S. are the official name for their company.It would be wrong to permit such advertisements to continue, and in my opinion the law does not prevent me from grantingan injunction, which I now do, restraining the defendants, their servants, or agents, from representing by advertisementor otherwise that the letters A.G.S. stand for or are otherwise the name of the defendant company. Owing to the way inwhich the defendants have behaved I make the plaintiffs' costs of this motion their costs in any event. m m m m • -• . The Rumpler C. IV Biplane. IN connection with the description of the RumplerC. IV biplane which appeared in our issue of February 21st, we regret that, by an oversight, it was not stated that forthe information upon which it was based we were indebted to the courtesy of the editor of our French contemporary,L'Aerophile. ....... The New "Hazell Annual." THE success of the " Hazell Annual" has again necessitateda further increase in size, and for 1918 the purchaser gets some 920 pages of closely-printed matter for his five shillings,the price having had to go up temporarily. It is still, how- ever, excellent value and crammed full of facts as it is. Whatmakes it especially useful is a copious index. There is an extensive section devoted to aviation, including a list of allraids by aeroplanes and Zeppelins, and other useful informa- tion. Apart from the usual reference information which haswon for Hazell a leading place in this class of volume, new features this year are a useful Knightage and Companionageof the various Orders of Knighthood ; a Medical Review of the year bearing especially on the war, and a comprehensivearticle on Labour and Socialism, with special relationship to the condition of affairs in France, Germany, Russia andSweden. m * ' m m PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. A Dictionary of Aircraft. By W. E. Dommett, A.F.Ae.S.London : Electrical Press, Ltd., 13-16, Fisher Street, W.C. 1. Price 2S. net (post free 2*. id.). Airfare of To-day and of the Future. By Edgar C. Middle- ton. London : Constable and Co., Ltd. Price, 3s. 6d. net. MARCH .7, 1918 NEW COMPANIES REGISTERED. EXPRESS ENGINEERING WORKS, LTD, 7, GreatSt. Helens, E.C.—Capital ^10,000, in £1 shares. Engineers manufacturers of boilers, aircraft and munitions, &c. GENERAL TRADING AND DEVELOPMENT CO..LTD.—Capital ^5,000, in £1 shares (2,500 pref.). Merchants, ironfounders, engineers, manufacturers of aeroplanes, diri-gibles, aircraft, automobiles, &c. First directors :—A. de Duve, E. F. de Vlieger and G. Teygeman. VALLEY ENGINEERING AND METAL CO., LTD.—Capital ^3,000, in 2,800 7 per cent, cumulative preference shares of £1 each and 4,000 ordinary shares of is. each.Acquiring business of engineers and manufacturers of and dealers in aeroplane fittings and valves, formerly carried onby Rawson and Duffus, and afterwards by F. L. B. Locke, at Harpenden. as the Valley Engineering Co. WELDON ENGINEERING CO., LTD.—Capital £50,000.in £1 shares. Manufacturers of and dealers in aeroplanes, flying machines, airships, &c. Solicitors, Simmons andSimmons, 74, Cheapside, E.C. WHITEHEAD MOTORS, LTD., 61, Grena Road, Rich-mond, Surrey.—Capital ^2,000, in £1 shares. Manufacturers of and dealers in internal combustion, aero and other engines,machines, &c. First directors : J. A. Whitehead and L. D. Coupland. BUSINESS NAMES REGISTRATIONS. Y. GOLDBERG.—Registered January 4th, 1898. Plywood,timber and veneer Manufacturer and importer, and manufac- turer of plywood for aeroplane contractors, 7, Kings landRoad, Shoreditch, E.2. Proprietor : H. Goldberg (Russian), 72, Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, N.16. RANLAGH AERO ENGINEERING CO.—RegisteredJanuary 5th, 1898. Manufacturers of aircraft metal parts, welding and general engineers, 16, Maxwell Road, King's Road,Fulham. Business commenced December 20th, 1917. Part- ners : (1) C. W. Lamer (British), 89, Queen's Road, Peckham.(2) A. J. Holmes (British), 5, Tennyson Mansions, Queen's Club Gardens, West Kensington. Aeronautical Patents Published. . _. Applied for in 1916. The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specifications areprinted and abridged, &c. Published March 7th, 1918.- - • 7130. T. ANTOINE. Flying-machines. (IT3,IOO.) Applied for in 1917. The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specifications areprinted and abridged, &c. Published March 7th, igiS. • ; 1,879. M. SALOUN. Anti-aircraft projectiles. (113,134.) 2>335- J- W. WILSON, Hinging of ailerons and balancing of auxiliary planes. ("3,153-)2,538. C. DOWNS. Manufacture of aerial bombs, aerial torpedoes. See. ("3.I57-) If you require anything pertaining to aviation, stvdy "FLIGHT'S" Buyers' Guide and Trade Directory, wtoich appears in our advertisement pages each week (see pages xlviii, xlix and 1). FLIGHT and The Aircraft Engineer. 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY. W.C. 2. 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