Brief for the United States (1914)

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102 PART VII. ciating this, he insisted, as we liave seen, that the complete apparatus should be described, because the differences which distinguished applicant's film from the prior films are largely due to the features of novelty in the apparatus." Also, in explaining why he had not referred in any of his numerous caveats to the character of the film, he said that he was not interested in manufacturing x^hotographic material and did not regard the film as part of his invention ; he looked to the people who made it for that. It seems also that while his original application was filed August 24, 1891, the claims for the film were not made until December 28, 1896, in an amendment filed that day. The conversion of this negative film strip into a positive for use in an exhibiting apparatus was effected hy one of the familiar processes of the photographic art. The invention of Edison Avas exhausted in the construction of the camera which enabled the photographs of moving objects to be taken upon the Eastman film in the distinct, uniform, and satisfactory manner justly claimed for them. The pictures are the direct result of the mechanism of the camera with the Eastman film mechanically adapted to and applied therein. In ou]' o]:>inion claim 2 of reissue patent No. 12192 is unpatentable and void; and the decree must be reversed with costs and the cause remanded with dircM-tion to dismiss the bill. (T, 180, fols. 8-4, 181, 182, 183.)