In the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, petitioner, vs. Motion Picture Patents Company, et al., defendants (1914)

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2546 Petitioner's Exhibit No. 259. the past few months, was brought to a temporary halt by the order of Judge Christian C. Kohlsaat, of the United States circuit court, Chicago, on April 28, setting the hearing of the petition of the Kleine Optical Company for a temporary injunction against the Edison Manufacturing Company for May 11, and in the meanwhile restraining the Edison Manufacturing company and its licensees from prosecuting the suits already brought against various theater owners in America, or from instituting additional suits, and from sending out statements to the press, or issuing circulars regarding the controversy. On May 11 a truce was declared by the parties upon the suggestion of the Court, and the above order was continued in effect until the hearing of the main patent suit of Edison Manufacturing company v. Kleine Optical company, it being agreed, however, that the Edison Manufacturing company was at liberty to bring suit against such of its licensees as had violated their agreements. Petition of Kleine Optical Company. The matter came up on the petition of the Kleine Optical company for an order of the court, until a final determination of the suit against it, restraining the Edison Manufacturing company from prosecuting any of the suits against the customers of the Kleine Optical company, and from bringing any further suits for alleged infringement, and from threatening or asserting an intention to bring further suits against such users or customers. The petition sets forth that the Kleine Optical company has been engaged in the business of dealing in photographic films and moving picture machines and apparatus for more than eleven years, and has unencumbered assets of over $200,000 in value, and has many hundreds of customers using its films in Chicago and elsewhere, and that during the year 1907 said customers purchased of the Kleine Optical company approximately fl, 000,000 worth of films. The petition then recites, in chronological order, the filing of the various suits by the Edison Manufacturing company against the Kleine Optical company, George Kleine, and fifteen customers of the Kleine Optical company, located in Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio, and that the Edison Manufacturing company is threatening to bring a large number