PATENT FOR WAVING HAIR
COURT ACTION CONCLUDES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 11. The hearing concluded in the Supreme Court today of a case involving a patent for waving hair permanently. It has covered four weeks, including an adjournment between the finish of the evidence and the beginning of counsel’s addresses, and is possibly the longest patent case ever heard in New Zealand. Addresses from counsel took all this week.
Reserving judgment at the end of the hearing this afternoon, Mr Justice Smith commended counsel for their labours in presenting their cases and thanked them for the assistance they had given him. The plaintiff was Frederick Maeder, of Adelaide, hairdresser, for whom Mr G. G. Watson appeared, and the defendants were the Ronda Ladies’ Hairdressing Salon. Arnold McKnight and Benjamin McKnight, of Wellington. The plaintiff claimed to be the proprietor of letters patent which he alleged the defendants infringed. The defence was a denial of the validity of the patent.
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Southland Times, Issue 24485, 12 July 1941, Page 6
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