The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

14 Cfte Cfteatrc the five examiners who improperly deprived him of his rights during these eleven years?" When Goodwin finally got his patent, he had exhausted his small financial resources, as well as those of his friends. It was then that the Ansco Company, through its predecessors, came to the rescue of Goodwin's rights. The result was the Ansco-Goodwin film, made by the Goodwin Film & Camera Company, and marketed by the Ansco Company. The Goodwin Company thereupon entered suit for infringement against the Eastman Kodak Company on December 15, 1902, and it took ten years and eight months to take testimony and secure a first decision in the District Court. The delay was not due to the District Court, which did its duty by according swift justice — as evidenced by the decision of Judge Hazel — but to the taking of testimony. The decision of Judge Hazel in favor of the Goodwin patent was shortly afterward affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The Eastman Kodak Company has made a settlement after these tv/enty-six long years of litigation. The substantial cash payment made by the Eastman Kodak Company is in lieu of past damages, and covers a license permitting them to continue to manufacture cartridge films, pack films, and moving picture films under the Goodwin patent and process. In other words, this settlement which raises the widow of the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin — a woman past eighty-six years — from a position of comparative poverty to one of affluence, also permits the Eastman Kodak Company to manufacture film under the Goodwin patent and without infringing the rights of -"I't^- *-u^ r.^,^^,,,;,^ Film & Camera Company or the Ansco Company. To give an idea of how impossible it is to manufac