MUENCH-KREUZER CANDLE CO. v. WILSON

No. 15132.

246 F.2d 624 (1957)

MUENCH-KREUZER CANDLE CO., Inc., a corporation, Appellant, v. Lester F. WILSON, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 24, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyon & Lyon, Charles G. Lyon, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

H. Calvin White, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, CHAMBERS and BARNES, Circuit Judges.


CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

This is a patent suit involving Wilson's Magi-Color candle and Muench-Kreuzer's Make-a-Rainbow candle. Wilson holds patent No. 2,464,361 for Magi-Color.1 The Make-a-Rainbow, which as it burns achieves the same result, is unpatented.

A little candle history is pertinent. Mention of candles is found in the Bible.2 And their use has continued through the centuries. For many years...

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