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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Record Details:

Title:
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
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, Appeal Printing Co.
Volume:
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 : record volume 6
Leaf #:
00060
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
These seven volumes contain the testimonies and supporting documents from the U.S. District Court's antitrust lawsuit against the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC). Formed in 1908, the MPPC (sometimes referred to asœ"the Edison Trust" or just "the Trust") sought to control the American film industry through pooling patents and demanding that producers and exhibitors acquire licenses to those patents. Independent producers and exhibitors, who refused to license the patents, argued that the MPPC was an unlawful monopoly. In 1912 and 1913, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania heard testimonies from both MPPC members, such as Siegmund Lubin, and "Independents" who later became Hollywood moguls, such as William Fox. Ultimately, in 1915, the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which found the MPPC in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and spelled the end for the already weakening MPPC. -- Eric Hoyt, 2012
Date Added:
September 12, 2024
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3092 Stipulation of Counsel. & Bull, and Kerr, Page & Cooper, counsel for complainants and defendants in the various suits on Edison Patent No. 589,168, and re-issue patents 12,037, 12,038, and 12,192, brought between 1897 and 1909, also copies of the entries in said docket books relating to suits on re-issue patent No. 12,192, which were brought by the Edison Manufacturing Company against the various individuals, firms or corporations to the number of thirty, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division; five in the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division; three in the Eastern District of Missouri ; and three in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. STIPULATION OF COUNSEL. It is stipulated and agreed that the exhibit offered by Mr. Kingsley, which is marked Defendant's Exhibit No. 1G4, and is printed immediately below this stipulation, is a copy of all the docket entries entered in the usual course of business on the books of Dyer & Dyer, Gifford & Bull and Kerr, Page & Cooper, counsel for complainants and defendants in all suits on Edison Patent No. 589,168 and re-issue patents No. 12,037, 12,038 and 12,192, brought between 1897 and 1909, except that where an entry appeared in the docket books twice by reason of being entered once in the books of counsel for complainants and once in the books of counsel for defendants, such entry has been copied only once in said Defendant's Exhibit No. 164, and except that in addition to the suits named in said Defendant's Exhibit No. 164, suits on the re-issue patent 12,192, were brought by the Edison Manufacturing Company against various individuals, firms or corporations, between March 16, 1908, and April 25, 1908, thirty of such suits having been brought in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, three in the Eastern District of Missouri, and three in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and that in none of said last mentioned suits was anything done after the filing of the answer therein until the suits were dismissed by consent and without costs in the month of March or April, 1909.