Courts do not enforce rights and obligations that are merely ethical or moral, but are confined to rights and obligations that are legal or come within equity. Ethics and morals are left to the realm of good conscience. This Court therefor? disclaims any pow er or intention of passing upon the ethical or moral principles involved in this case.
As tothe legal rights here involved the plaintiffs have failed to produtee sufficient proof that they have copyright privileges in cither the United States or that they have filed application for provisional registration of copyright in China. The plaintiffs' petition in respect to copyright is therefore dismissed.
The court, however, found that defendants had "colour fully "infringed plaintiff's trademark," and granted an injunction restraining them from' further circulating the offending prospectus, ordering that the plates from which it is printed he destroyed, together with unused copies of the prospectus. Plaintiffs were awarded nominal damages in the sum of Tls. 1,500.
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