Brief for the United States (1914)

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104 PART VII. ber, 1904. (Ill, 1763, fol. 4.) Three other suits were brought by Edison on the fihn patent about the same time, so that the defendants in the several suits joined in an agreement for their joint defense. (Ill, 1765, 1766.) The suit against Schneider was the only film suit in which any testimony was taken down to February, 1908. On cross-examination Berst admitted that after the suit was brought Pathe continued to import positives during 1905, 1906, and 1909, and that many positives were imported by others. (IV^ 1959, fol. 2.) Blackton, of the Vitagraph Co., said that he produced and sold films from 1902 to 1908. (IV, 2081, fol. 2.) Defendants' Exhibit 164 is a copy of all the docket entries in all suits brought between 1897 and 1909 on No. 589168 and reissues 12037, 12038, and 12192, except that it omits 36 suits brought on patent No. 12192 by the Edison Manufacturing Co. between March 16, 1908, and April 25, 1908, during the Edison-Biograph-Kleine war. Thirty of these thirty-six suits were brought in Illinois, three in Missouri, and three in W isconsin. In none of these 36 suits was anything done after the filing of the answers until the suits were dismissed by consent in March or April, 1909. Defendants' Exhibit 164 contains a complete record of all suits brought on the patents referred to. Reissue Patent No. 12182 is dated January 12, 1904. Between that date and February 1, 1908,