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63:. Clayton chose the names "Vincent Chemical Company" and "Vincent's APC" to distance himself, as a practicing physician, from any commercial product. During the pneumonic influenza epidemic April to July 1919, he offered many of his customers packages of the compound as A.P.C. powder, which may have been labeled "Vincent's A.P.C." The partnership was incorporated on 11 September 1919 with paid-up capital of £200; £50 from each of the partners; later doubled to total £400. Vincent made up the compound, coloured pink, in premises adjacent to his chemist's shop, as 12 envelopes of powder in a box, or as 24 tablets in a small bottle, and labeled as "pain remedy". Printed instructions for use, supplied
80:. He was still on friendly terms with Probert, and intimated to him that he would like to rejoin the partnership, and on 8 March 1926 wrote to them with an offer, intimating that he had other products with which they could diversify, to which Delany replied on 10 March, stating that none of the shareholders was interested in his proposal, concluding ominously: "As you mention that you are desirous of putting certain new lines of chemical preparations on the Australian market, I have to remind you that perhaps the most valuable asset of the Vincent Chemical Company in this field is now its trademark ... and that it could not permit this asset to be challenged or imperilled."
84:(née Mills) was appointed in his place. In 1934 Vincent Chemical Co. sued Vincent's Products, Ltd. for infringement of their trademark. The court upheld the complaint and issued a limited injunction against the defendant from using that name in circumstances which might lead customers to believe the companies were associated, and awarded costs against Vincent's Products, Ltd.
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