Brief for the United States (1914)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

110 PAET VII. A. I think all of the OTSTiers of patents considered tliem of dominant importance, and those who did not own them belittled them. Q. Since the combination was formed, then, they all ceased belittling them, in your judgment ? A. I think as soon as anybody acquired a license under the i^atents, and paid a consideration for the license, they would appreciate the value of the license and of the patent. The flagrant disregard of patent rights by all defendants Mr. IVIarvin thus described (Marvin, I, 149, fols. 1-3) : Q. Had not the Latham patent been disregarded generally in the trade by all the manufacturers for a period of four or five years as being of no value ? A. I can not say definitely as to that, because the former owners of the Latham patents were not financially able to bring suits under that patent against infringers, and therefore no suits had been started to my knowledge, and I am therefore unable to know anything about the attitude of the people who were infringing the patent. Q. Do you mean that where the owner of the patent was financially unable to bring suit to maintain his right under the patent, the manufacturers of these moving pictures deliberately infringed his patent?