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

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OEIGINAL PETITION^ EXHIBIT 3. 63 embodying any or all of the inventions described and claimed in the said Letters Patent Nos. 578185, 580749,586953, 588916, 673329, 673992, 707934, 722382, 744251, 770937, 771280, 785205, and 785237, and that ro3mlties or rents from the users of such exhibiting or projecting machines will not be exacted, directly or indirectly, until February 1st, 1909. 8. The Licensee further covenants and agrees not to use, in the production of negative or positive motion pictures, under this agreement, the negative or positive motion pictures (or reproductions commonly known as ^' dupes" of the negative or positive motion pictures), of any other manufacturer or person, firm, or corporation located either in the "territory aforesaid" or in any foreign country, whether the same have or have not been copyrighted in the "territory aforesaid" or in any foreign country. 9. The Licensor has established the following scale of minimum prices (which the Licensee admits is a fair and reasonable one) for the lease of positive motion pictures on film of a greater width than approximately one (1) inch in the " lease territory aforesaid," embodying the invention of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12192: List 13 rents per running foot. Standing order 11 cents per running foot. Films leased between two and four raondis aflcr release date 9 cents per running foot. Films leased between foi:r and six months after release date 7 cents per running foot. Films leased over six months after release date 5 cents per running foot. The Licensor and Licensee further mutually covenant and agree that the above scale of minimum prices is to remain in force until a new scale of prices is adopted, each such new scale to be adopted, during the continuance of this agreement, by a majority vote to be forthwith communicated to the Licensor of the Licensee and the several additional licensees hereinafter provided for, or such of them as may at the time be licensees on the basis of one vote for each thousand running feet of new subjects on film of a greater width than approximately one (1) inch offered for lease or sale in the "territory aforesaid" by each licensee during the year preceding the taking of such vote; and 55498—12 9