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

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OKIGINAL PETITIOX, EXHIBIT 3. 55 785205, and 785237, and to sell positive motion pictures on film of a width approximately one (1) inch or less in certain territory and on film of any width in certain territory : (/) Now therefore, the parties hereto, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to each in hand paid by the other, and for other good and valuable considerations from each to the other moving, receipt of all of which is hereby acknowledged, have agreed as follows : 1. The Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee for the term and subject to the covenants, conditions, and stipulations hereinafter expressed, the right and license under said reissued Letters Patent No. 12037 and Letters Patent Nos. 629063 and 707934, for the United States, its territories, dependencies, and possessions (hereinafter called the '^ territory aforesaid") to manufacture and use such a number of cameras embodying the inventions of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12037 and Letters Patent Nos. 629063 and 707934, as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the Licensee's business, and to manufacture, print and produce positive motion pictures embodying the inventions of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12192, and to lease the same in the LTnited States, its territories, dependencies, and possessions (with the exceptions of its insular possessions and Alaska), hereinafter referred to as the ^' lease territory aforesaid,'' on film of a greater width than approximately one (1) inch, upon condition that they be used solely in exhibiting or projecting machines containing the inventions or some of them of said Letters Patent Nos. 578185, 580749, 586953, 588916, 673329, 673992, 707934, 722382, 744251, 770937, 771280, 785205 and 785237, and licensed by the Licensor, and to sell positive motion pictures embodying the invention of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12192, on film of a width approximately one (1) inch or less in the ^' lease territory aforesaid" and on film of any width in or for said insular possessions and Alaska and foreign countries, hereinafter referred to as '^ said export territory" or '^for export." The License hereby granted is personal to the Licensee and does not include the right to dispose of, in the ^ territory aforesaid," any cameras embodying any invention covered 55498—12 8