In re Trade-Mark Cases
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In In re Trade-Mark Cases (1879), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Patent and Copyright Clause did not establish congressional authority for defining and protecting federal trademarks.
Later Congress circumvented this decision by passing trademark legislation under the Commerce Clause.