The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants (1912)

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OEIGINAL PETITION. 41 doing anything in pursuance or in furtherance of said agreements, and from enforcing in any manner said agreements, or any of the terms thereof, in interstate and foreign commerce. 5. That the court by way of an injunction restrain the movement of the products of the 10 Patents Company Hcensees and of the General Film Company in the channels of interstate commerce until the decree of the court respecting the Motion Picture Patents Company, the General Film Company, and the said so-called license agreements has been carried into effect by defendants and said Patents Company and General Film Company dissolved and said agreements canceled. 6. That the court adjudge that the patents named in the so-called license agreements referred to and described in the petition, now claimed to be held and ow^ned by defendant Motion Picture Patents Company, w^ere acquired, and are now held by said defendant by virtue of such combination and conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, and solely to effectuate the unlawful objects and purposes of the same, and that the said Motion Picture Patents Company, its officers, directors, and agents, be enjoined from exercising or attempting to exercise any control, direction, supervision, or influence whatever over the interstate or foreign commerce of the other defendants by virtue of said company holding said patents or otherwise. 7. That the defendants and all and each of them be enjoined and prohibited from entering into or continuing any similar combination or conspiracy, and from agreeing, combining, conspiring, and acting together to prevent each and any of them from carrying on interstate and foreign trade and commerce in motion picture films and other articles relating to the motion picture art in competition with the others.