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Dr. Forrest C. Allen,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

Thank you very much for your cordial letter of May 18.

I am glad to know that you have the jacket that Lowe and Campbell

made for you in 1926. I should like very much to see this jacket,
and if I have the opportunity of being in your part of the country
soon, I should like to talk to you about it.

A number of our customers are interested in making various forms

of hooded jackets this year and we, of course, are selling fasteners
for them. There is a patent attorney in New York whose client has
a patent on a different form of hooded Jacket and he is causing our
customers and us considerable annoyance by trying to stretch his
patent to cover the jacket we are promoting, and threatening to

sue us. We believe that the jacket you have which was made many
years before the patent was applied for, is like the jacket our
customers are now making and not like the patent. We have taken
this matter up with the attorney in question, and we believe if we
can satisfy him that Jackets such as we are now promoting were made
prior to the date of filing application for his patent, useless
litigation will be avoided. For this reason, I should greatly ap=
preciate your sending me the jacket as you suggested. I should
like to show it to this attorney and I should also like to know

how we can prove you bought the garment before, let us say, 1951.

I shall appreciate it if you will, before sending the jacket, mark
it in some inconspicuous place with your initials or some other
identifying mark so that if it ever should become necessary, it will
be possible for you to sign an affidavit that this particular gar-
ment identified by this mark, was purchased by you at a certain time.

I do not wish to put you to any trouble or inconvenience, but if
you have any records handy that you can refer to, I should very
much like to know what they are.

It is quite possible that I will be out in that part of the country
some time this Summer, and if I am I should like to talk to you about
this matter. Do you plan to be in Lawrence all Summer, or do you