Duckworth Turner and Company Limited v Commissioner of Trade Marks - [1959] NZLR 1341

Trade marks and trade names — Eligibility of Word "Mannequins" for Registration as Trade Mark — Word lacking Quality of "distinctiveness" — Traders not to be permitted by Registration to monopolize Words in General Use in Commerce — Duty of Commissioner of Trade Marks to preserve Such Words — Exercise of Commissioner's Discretion — Trade Marks Act 1953, s. 14.