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

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Exhibit 3. LICE5^SE AGREEMENT UNDER THE CAMERA AND FILM PATENTS BETWEEN MOTION PICTURE PATENTS COMPANY AND BIOGRAPH COMPANY, DECEMBER 18, 1908. (a) This agreement, made this 18th day of December, 1908, by and between 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, party of the first part (hereinafter referred to as the Licensor), and American Mutoscope and Biograph Compan}^, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and having an office at New York City, party of the second part (hereinafter referred to as the Licensee), witnesseth: (6) \ATiereas, the Licensor represents that it is organized to own, deal in, and grant licenses under letters patent pertaining to the motion-picture art, and that it is the owner of all the right, title, and interest in and to United States Letters Patent — No. 578185, dated March 2, 1897, for Vitascope, granted to Thomas Armat ; No. 580749, dated April 13, 1897, for Vitascope, granted to Thomas Armat ; No. 586953, dated July 20, 1897, for Phantoscope, granted to Charles F. Jenkins and Thomas Armat; No. 588916, dated August 24, 1897, for Kinetoscope, granted to Charles M. Campbell as the assignee of Willard G. Steward and Ellis F. Frost; No. 629063, dated July 18, 1899, for Kinetoscopic Camera, granted to American Mutoscope Company as the assignee of Herman Caslet ; No. 673329, dated April 30, 1901, for Kinetoscope, granted to the American Vitagraph Company as the assignee of Albert E. Smith; 52