Nestle Patent Holding Co. v. E. Frederics, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Nestle Patent Holding Company against E. Frederics, Incorporated. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Nestle Patent Holding Company against E. Frederics, Incorporated. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals. This cause comes here on, appeal from a decree entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 15, 1918. A bill of complaint, was filed by Challes Nessler against the defendant, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state oí: New York. The plaintiff therein alleged that he was the first, original, and, sole…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The patents in suit relate to alleged improvements either in the apparatus or in the processes for producing a so-called “permanent” wave in the hair while on the human head. Prior to the patents in suit hair had *782been waved, both when on the human head and after it had been removed from the head and made up into “switches” and sold as “commercial” hair. A large business has been developed under the patents in suit.
The president of the plaintiff company, Charles Nessler, was born in Germany and began the business of a hair dresser in Zurich and Geneva in…
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- Expanded Metal Co. v. BradfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Leeds & Catlin Co. v. Victor Talking MacHine Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Grinnell Washing MacHine Co. v. E. E. Johnson Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Richards v. Chase Elevator Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1895
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- E. Frederics, Inc. v. Eugene, Ltd.District Court, S.D. New York · 1924