Legal Opinion
Nestle-Le Mur Co. v. Eugene, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1932No. 5787PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judge.
This is an action for infringement of patent No. 1,266,879, issued to Eugene Francois Snter, May 21, 1918, for electrical heating apparatus for permanently waving hair. Claim 1 is the only claim in suit, and is printed in the margin. The District Court found this claim to he valid and infringed as against defenses of anticipation, aggregation, want of invention, and noninfringement. The defendant below appeals.
The human hair is waved (permanently, so called) by winding strands or tresses tightly around suitable curlers, dampening with borax solution or other…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Tilghman v. ProctorSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Cochrane v. DeenerSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Expanded Metal Co. v. BradfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- Pacific Contact Laboratories, Inc. v. Solex Laboratories, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
- United States Gypsum Co. v. Consolidated Expanded Metal CompaniesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1942
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