Quality Stabilization, 1963: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3669, a Bill to Amend the Federal Trade Commission Act, to Promote Quality and Price Stabilization, to Define and Restrain Certain Unfair Methods of Distribution and to Confirm, Define, and Equalize the Rights of Producers and Resellers in the Distribution of Goods Identified by Distinguishing Brands, Names, Or Trademarks, and for Other Purposes and Identical Bills

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Page 313 - Therefore, corrective action involving deceptive practices in the sale of furniture would be initiated under the Authority of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act which prohibits "unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce.
Page v - That any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws may sue therefor in any district court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found or has an agent, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
Page 61 - It is a property right for the violation of which damages may be recovered in an action at law, and the continued violation of it will be enjoined by a court of equity, with compensation for past infringement. This exclusive right was not created by the act of Congress, and does not now depend upon it for its enforcement. The whole system of trade-mark property and the civil remedies for its protection existed long anterior to that act, and have remained in full force since its passage.
Page 62 - The office of a -trade-mark is to point out distinctively the origin, or ownership of the article to which it is affixed; or, in other words, to give notice who was the producer.
Page 63 - ... (Travers and Wright Restricted Channels of Distribution under the Sherman Act, 75 Harv.
Page vi - If any provision of this Act or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 67 - There is a great body of fact and opinion tending to show that price cutting by retail dealers is not only injurious to the good will and business of the producer and distributor of identified goods, but injurious to the general public as well.
Page 68 - The authority of the federal government over interstate commerce does not differ in extent or character from that retained by the states over intrastate commerce.
Page 61 - The right to adopt and use a symbol or a device to distinguish the goods or property made or sold by the person whose mark it is, to the exclusion of use by all other persons, has been long recognized by the common law and the chancery courts of England and of this country, and by the statutes of some of the States.
Page 409 - This letter is in support of two bills considered at that hearing and I respectfully request that it be included in the record of the hearing. S. 1332, Senator Mitchell's bill to confirm that the full investment tax credit may be claimed on capital construction fund qualified withdrawals would clarify ambiguity and should be passed. We strongly support S. 1332. S. 1768, also introduced by Senator Mitchell, would provide energy tax...

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