In Mexico, the Governor of
Tabasco named his children, Lenin, Lucifer and Satan.
Not exact matches
In 1898, another Louisiana entrepreneur (and former McIlhenny employee)
named B. F. Trappey began growing
tabasco chiles from Avery Island seed.
If you look carefully, you can see the
Tabasco ®
name embossed on the bottom of the bottle.
The trademark did not deter other companies from using the
name Tabasco in their products.
He also led an expansion of the brand's merchandising, licensing partnerships and product offerings to include numerous products co-branded with the
Tabasco brand
name, as well as a thriving catalogue business in licensed merchandise, including, for example, the popular
Tabasco neckties.
Plus, co-branding products with the
TABASCO ® brand
name means energizing them with the power of a globally recognized brand.
The place
name Tabasco was current in New Orleans in the late 1840s, not only because of the established trade but also because New Orleans played an important role in the war with Mexico (1846 - 1847).
«In 1847 the inland town of
Tabasco on the banks of the
Tabasco River (now Grijalva) in the territory by that
name south of the state of Veracruz, Mexico, was second to the port of Veracruz in commercial importance on the Gulf of Mexico (Ghigliazza 1948, 59).
The defendant, in answer, denies that plaintiff or its predecessors now use, or have ever used, the word «
Tabasco» as a trade - mark or identifying
name for sauce, and specially avers that the word «
Tabasco» could not and can not be appropriated as a trade - mark, because it is geographical and descriptive; that plaintiff continually acquiesced in the descriptive use of the word «
Tabasco,» and never made a bona fide attempt to establish the trade - mark it now asserts; and that any rights that plaintiff may have had in the
name as a trade - mark were lost by the patenting of the process and the expiration of such patent.
Even had McIlhenny not abandoned his patent but continued to use the patented process, it does not necessarily follow that the defendant, on the expiration of the patent, would have had the right to give to a sauce manufactured by him by the patented process, the
name «
Tabasco.»
The finding of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that the registration by plaintiff's predecessor of the trade - mark had been fraudulently obtained, was based on the fact that in the application for registration, it was stated that applicant's use of the
name «
Tabasco» had been exclusive, whereas the testimony showed that several other manufacturers, during the preceding ten years, had, to its knowledge, used the word in connection with pepper sauce.
The fact that defendant has not only dressed his product in imitation of that of the plaintiff, but has, in addition, likewise used plaintiff's trade - mark, gives added reason why the Court should require that hereafter defendant not only discontinue the use of the
name «
Tabasco,» but that he adopt a new and distinctive bottle and carton, such as will clearly and unmistakably differentiate his sauce from the «
Tabasco Pepper Sauce» manufactured by plaintiff.
Commencing about 1890, the peppers have been extensivly raised in Louisiana and Mississippi, under the
names «
Tabasco peppers,» «bird peppers» and «red peppers,» and have been used in the manufacture of pepper sauces substantially the same as that made by plaintiff.
The use of the
name «
Tabasco» preceded the patent by about two years, and, as similar sauces with the same ingredients have for many years been on the market, it is clear that it was the
name and the intrinsic merit of the article, rather than the patent, which gave the sauce its value.
Not only did defendant adopt the
name and imitate the bottles and cartons in use by plaintiff, but at the very beginning, when he started the manufacture and sale of his sauce in competition with the long established business of plaintiff, he printed on his bottle labels a caution to use «only the genuine Evangeline,» thus apparently seeking to create the impression that such «Evangeline»
Tabasco Sauce was an old and established brand, against spurious imitations of which the public should be warned.
In that case Gaidry, a manufacturer of a sauce labelled «
Tabasco Pepper Sauce,» brought suit against McIlhenny Company for damages for alleged wrongful conduct in interfering with the plaintiff's business by falsely and in bad faith representing to dealers throughout the country that it had an exclusive trade - mark in the
name «
Tabasco,» and threatening injunction and other legal proceedings against those who handled any sauce called «
Tabasco» not made by the said McIlhenny Company.
Tabasco sauce is made by the company of the same
name.
Both
Tabasco Cat and Go for Gin will run in the Classic, and no 3 - year - old has won the Classic and failed to be
named champion of that division.
The object of their scrutiny was a strapping, gray 3 - year - old
named Holy Bull, who would lace Preakness and Belmont winner
Tabasco Cat and about whom there was as much uncertainty as fascination, a deliciously fast horse, perhaps the horse all of racing has been waiting for.