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14 Bull. U.S. Trade-Mark Ass'n 185 (1919-1920)
Issue 6

handle is hein.journals/bustdmk14 and id is 189 raw text is: BULLETIN OF THE Enuiteb tates rabe=9Iark soiation NEW SERIES Vol. 14 SEPTEMBER, 1919 No. 6 TRADE-MARKS IN BELGIUM DURING THE WAR By M. ALBERT CAPITAINE Avocat A La Cour D'Appel De Lidge As may be readily understood, the period of the war brought to Belgium a considerable slackening of all its activities with refer- ence to industrial property. This has been so, in the first place, in the field of the law. Our courts and tribunals have had little litiga- tion before them and have not rendered so large a number of inter- esting decisions as usual. This is not because infringements have not been numerous, in the case of trade-marks especially, but because communication in Belgium was difficult and foreigners could not easily attend to the defense of their interests within our jurisdiction. The courts elsewhere having ceased their functions for almost a year, suits have been extremely rare. We have published in the Journal de la Propridtd Industrielle (1919, page 19) a r~sunj of all the decisions of any interest to a foreigner in the matter of trade-marks. Here we may refer par- ticularly to a decision of the court of Anvers of April 19, 1914, which declared that the mark Cat Gin, accompanied by the rep- resentation of a cat, was infringed by the picture of a cat and the words Brown Cat. * * * With reference to the English language especially, attention should also be called to a judgment of the tribunal of Brussels of November 19, 1913, and to a decree of the court of Brussels of April 25, 1916. Under the first decision it was held that, for the Belgian public, there was no similarity be- tween the words Cerveau d'Acier and Modern Steel Brain.