A  copyrighted  design  for  playing  cards  is  infringed  by  cards
which,  though  differing  in  some  respects,  exhibit  a  striking  similar-
ity in  those  distinctive  features  of  tlie  main  design,  wherein  the
cards  registered  differ  from  other  playing  cards  previously  used.
JRichardson  v.  Miller,  12  jPat.  Off.  Gaz.  3.
319.  Registration  of  Prints  or  Labels.
Act  of  June  18,  1874,  c.  301,  §  3,  contains  the  following
provision  relative  to  registration,  in  the  patent-office,  of
prints  or  labels  :


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No  prints  or  labels  designed  to  be  used  for  any  other  art-
icles of  manufacture  shall  be  entered  under  the  copyright
law,  but  may  be  registered  in  the  patent-office.  And  the
commissioner  of  patents  is  hereby  charged  with  the  super-
vision and  control  of  the  entry  or  registry  of  such  prints  or
labels,  in  conformity  with  the  regulations  provided  by  law
as  to  copyright  of  prints,  except  that  there  shall  be  paid  for
recording  the  title  of  any  print  or  label  not  a  trade-mark,^
six  dollars,  which  shall  cover  the  expense  of  furnishing  a
copy  of  the  record  under  the  seal  of  the  commissioner  of
patents,  to  the  party  entering  the  same.  18  Stat.  p.  79,
§  3  ;  1  Supp.  Bev.  Stat.  41,  §  3.
The  doctrine  that  the  several  acts  of  Congress  relating  to  the
registration  of  prints  designed  to  be  used  as  labels,  allow  registra-
tion of  a  label  which  might  also  be  registered  as  a  trade-mark  -^
and  that  the  question  whether  the  commissioner  of  patents  shall
regard  an  application  submitted  to  him  for  registration  as  being  a
trade-mark  or  a  label,  depends  wholly  upon  the  will  of  the  proprie-
tor (United  States  v.  Marble,  1  Mackey,  284  ;  22  Pat.  Off.  Gas.
