Brief for the United States (1914)

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232 PAET IX. ^^3. The licensee shall not sell nor exhibit licensed motion pictures obtained from any licensed manufacturer or importer, either in the United States or elsewhere, but shall only sublet such licensed motion pictures and only to exhibitors who shall exclusively exhibit licensed motion pictures, but in no case shall the exhibitor be permitted to sell or sublet or otherwise dispose of said licensed motion pictures. ' ' (b) Extracts from bulletins issued by the Patents Co. to exhibitors. (Jan. 22, 1909, I, 87.) To the exhibitors of moving pictures: The Motion Picture Patents Co. has acquired the Edison, Biograph, Annat, and Vitagraph patents, which patents, we are assured by counsel, cover all modern moving-picture films and all existing commercial types of projecting machines. The Patents Co. has licensed the following manufacturers and importers whose present output is 18 reels per week: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. Edison Manufacturing Co. Essanay Film IMauufacturiug Co. Kalem Co. George Kleine. TiUbin Manufacturing Co. Pathe Freres. Selii;' Polyscope (V). Vitagraph Co. of America. All moving-i)icture films not manufactured or imported by the above licensees are infringements