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

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48 OEIGINAL PETITION, EXHIBIT 2. Company and its successors in business, the entire right, title, and interest in and to the said reissued United States Letters Patent, Nos. 12037 and 12192, and the inventions described and claimed therein, and the right to sue for and recover damages and profits for past infringement of the said reissued letters patent and of each of them, and to enter into agreements in writing with the said Edison Licensees suspending the operation of the licenses granted by the Edison Company under the said reissued LTnited States Letters Patent to the said Edison Licensees, so long as the said reissued letters patent are owned by the Patents Company, and to enter into agreements in writing with the Eastman Company terminating the agreements in writing referred to in paragraph 3 hereof, so long as the said reissued letters patent are owned by the Patents Company. (10) The Patents Com.pany hereby covenants and agrees, in consideration of the said agreement of the Edison Company, and upon the assignment of the said reissued letters patent to the Patents Company, and upon the making of the said agreements in writing by and between the Edison Company and the Edison Licensees and the Eastman Company, to issue to the Edison Company certificates of stock of the Patents Company to the aggregate amount of four hundred and ninety (490) shares, of a par value of forty-nine thousand dollars ($49,000), and to pay to the Edison Company one thousand dollars ($1,000) in cash, and the Patents Com.pan}^ further covenants and agrees that at the same time there shall be assigned to the Edison Company for the said $1,000 in cash ten (10) shares of the capital stock of the Patents Company at a par value of one thousand dollars ($1,000). (11) The Edison Company covenants and agrees that it has canceled or will cancel any licenses, shop rights, or other rights which may have been heretofore granted under either or both of the said reissued United States letters patent to any person, firm, or corporation other than the Edison Licensees, and the Edison Company further covenants and agrees that it will save harmless in all respects the Patents Company from any claim under any agreement, contract, or other obligation which the Edison Company or its