Rights of owner to injunction

Wis. Stat. § 132.08 — under TRADEMARKS, BADGES AND LABELED PRODUCTS.

Wis. Stat. § 132.08

132.08 Rights of owner to injunction. Every such person or corporation having complied with ss. 132.04 to 132.08, may proceed by suit to enjoin any other person or corporation from filling with any substance, commodity or product for the sale therein of such substance, commodity or product any can, tub, firkin, box, bottle, cask, barrel, keg, carton, tank, fountain, vessel or container, so marked or distinguished as aforesaid or from buying, selling, using or disposing of or trafficking in the same, or from defacing, erasing, obliterating, covering up or otherwise removing any such name, brand, design, trademark, device or other marks of ownership thereon, for the purpose of destroying or removing the evidence of the ownership of such article, and all courts having equity jurisdiction shall have power to grant injunctions according to the course and principles of courts of equity, to restrain such filling for sale or such buying, selling, giving away, using or disposing of, or trafficking in or such defacing, erasing, obliterating, covering up, or otherwise removing or the violation of any right acquired under ss. 132.04 to 132.08, and upon a decree being rendered in any such case against the defendant, the complainant shall be entitled to recover the damages the complainant may have sustained by reason of the said acts of the defendant and the court shall assess the same or cause the same to be assessed under its direction. 132.11 Record of brands, etc. (1) The department shall do all of the following: (a) Upon application by any person, or firm domiciled in this state or by any corporation created under the laws thereof, or by a foreign corporation licensed to do business therein and engaged in the manufacture or sale of ale, porter, lager beer, soda water, mineral water or other beverages put up in packages, record in a book kept for that purpose a description of the names, brand or trademark used by such person, firm or corporation for marking the casks, barrels, kegs, bottles, jugs, fountains, boxes or other packages containing such beverage. (b) Collect a fee of $15 for each such description of name, brand or trademark which he or she is requested to record under par. (a). (c) Cancel the description of a name, brand or trademark recorded under par. (a) upon the request of the person, firm or corporation named in the records of the department as the owner of the name, brand or trademark. The department may not charge a fee for canceling a description under this paragraph. (2) Except as provided in s. 132.01 (6), nothing in this chapter is intended to be contrary to or to control or modify the provisions of this section. History: 1989 a. 91, 123, 359; 2011 a. 32.