Brief for the United States (1914)

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PART IV. 09 1-!. A;jr< ( Hit h(s hcl /!'( ( h tin (i< in ral i dni Co. und I^afctifs ( '<f. f ICC users. (Pet, p. On April 21, 1910, cncli of tlic 10 Pntciits To. licensees exeentcd an agreement with the (ieneral Film Co. to sn])])1y the Inttei with film lo he leased to exliibitors. Thest^ ai^reenients are idcntieal with oaeh other (\\e(^pt as to the paragraph stating? the mnnber of running feet of film which the General Film Co. agrees to take. A copy of the agreement between tlie General Film Co. and Edison Manufacturing Co., dated April 21, 1910, is attached to the petition as Exhibit 8. (Pet., pp. 116-122.) This agreement, substantially identical with nine other agreements concluded the same day with the other Patents Co. licensees (I, 552, fol. 4), recites that the Edison Co. has been licensed by the Patents Co. to manufacture motion-pictures by the use of cameras under the Edison camera patent, Biograpli friction-feed camera patent, and Latham loop " patent, such films containing the inventions of the film patent, and to lease positive motion-pictures so manufactured by it for use on projecting machines licensed inider the 13 projecting machine patents : the agreement then recites that the General Film Co. has been licensed to lease such " licensed motion pictures from the licensed manufacturers and to sublet such pictures for use on licensed projecting machines.