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Exhibit 2.
PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT FOR ASSIGNMENT OF PATENTS BETWEEN MOTION PICTURE PATENTS COMPANY AND EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, DECEMBER 18, 1908.
Agreement made this 18th day of December, 1908, by and between the Motion Picture Patents Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and having an office at Jersey City in said State (hereinafter referred to as the ^^ Patents Company"), party of the first part, and the Edison Manufacturing Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and having an office at Orange in said State (hereinafter referred to as the '^ Edison Company"), party of the second part:
(1) Whereas the Edison Company represents that it is the owner of all the right, title, and interest in and to reissued United States Letters Patent No. 12037, dated September 30, 1902, and reissued United States Letters Patent No. 12192, dated January 12, 1904^ and that there are no outstanding licenses under the said letters patent other than those hereinafter referred to, and
(2) Whereas the Edison Company represents that it has heretofore granted licenses in writing to manufacture and use the inventions described and claimed in said reissued Letters Patent No. 12037, and to manufacture and sell the invention described and claimed in the said reissued Letters Patent No. 12192, to the Vitagraph Company of America, of New York; Siegmund Lubin, of Philadelphia; the Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago; the Essanay Company of Chicago; the Kalem Company of New York; and the George Melies Company of Chicago, all dated January 31, 1908, and to Pathe Freres of New York, dated May 20, 1908, to go into effect June 20, 1908 (the licensees under said license agreements being hereinafter referred to as ^^ Edison Licensees"), and the Edison Company further represents
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