Rewave Heaters, Inc. v. Nestle-Lemur Co.

PATTERSON, District Judge.

The suit is for infringement of reissue patent to Speetjens, 18,614, covering a heater for imparting a permanent wave to the hair. The patent was originally 1,504,-988, applied for in 1922 and issued in 1924. Application for reissue was made in 1932, and the reissue was granted on October 4, 1932. As reissued the patent covered six additional claims, claims 5-10:

A familiar method of waving the hair permanently is to wind a strand spirally along a small rod, wrap it in a cloth saturated in an alkaline solution, with a covering of tin foil or cardboard, and insert the…