Brief for the United States (1914)

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38 PAET IV. patent and to use such improvements; to purchase, hold, sell, and convey such real and personal property as shall be lawful and adapted to the requirements of the business of the company." (Pet., pp. 10-11 : Exhibit Itopet, p. 43^;!, p. 14.) (/>) Meeting of December 18, 1908. (Pet., p. 11.) On December 18, 1908, at a meeting in New York City attended by all the individual defendants, and all the corporation defendants being represented (I, 12, fol. 3; Ans. of Pat. Co., p. 93), defendants, vdth the unlawful purposes above mentioned^ executed (a) preliminary agreements for the assignment of the patents to the Patents Co. (T, 12, fols. 3, 4; I, 13, fol. 3; Ex. 2 to Pet., p. 45; Ans. of Pat. Co., p. 93) and (b) nine license agreements with the Patents Co., one being concluded by each of the manufacturers (Gaston Melies signed a similar agreement on a later day) with the Patents Co. (I, 20-21; Ex. 3 to Pet, p. 52; Ans. of Pat. Co., p. 93). The terms of all these agreements had been arranged beforehand at numerous conferences between tlie manufacturers. (I, 10-11, 21.) On the same day, according to their previous agreement, defendants elected the following officers and directors of the Patents Co. : President, Frank L. Dyer; also vice president of Edison Maniifacturing Co. Vice president, H. N. Marvin ; also vice president of Biograph Co.