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

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OEIGINAL PETITION^ EXHIBIT 3. 6l aforesaid/^ unexposed positive or negative ^^ licensed film'^ during the continuance of this agreement; but this provision shall not prevent the Licensee from selling as refuse, in the "territory aforesaid/^ second-hand positive or negative motion pictures or motion pictures which have been used or become shopworn or in any way damaged, to a manufacturer or manufacturers of "licensed film" or to a manufacturer to manufacture other articles than film therefrom, but only after they have been rendered by the Licensee unsuitable for use as motion pictures by cutting or otherwise defacing them; or from selling exposed positive or negative film (either waste or in rolls) known as "blank film" for use by dealers, renters, or exhibitors for leaders or for spacing or for similar purposes, but which shall not and can not be otherwise employed for the exhibition of motion pictures. 6. The Licensee further covenants and agrees not to lease, loan, rent out, sell or offer for sale, or otherwise dispose of in the "territory aforesaid," motion pictures to anyone purchasing or otherwise obtaining, leasing, using, loaning, renting out, selling, offering for sale, or otherwise disposing of or dealing in motion pictures containing the invention of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12192, not the output of the Licensee or of the additional licensees hereinafter provided for. 7. The Licensee further covenants and agrees to mark each and every camera which the Licensee may make or use under this agreement embodying the inventions of reissued Letters Patents No. 12037, Letters Patent Nos. 629063 and 707934, or either of them, with the word " Patented" followed by the dates of grant of all of the said letters patent, the inventions claimed in which are embodied in the said camera or apparatus, and to photographically print the Licensee's trade-mark in each picture of at least one scene of each subject of positive motion pictures on film of a greater width than approximately one (1) inch manufactured by the Licensee and leased in the "lease territory aforesaid," and to mark conspicuously on the labels which shall be placed on boxes or packages containing positive motion pictures on film of a greater width than