Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer. (1913)

Record Details:

Title:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer.
Date:
1913
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Department of Justice
Volume:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice
Leaf #:
00027
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 30, 2023
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hie rights under hla original patent and the canera reis8ue in the two suits that wf. nt to the Court of Appeals . Tlie last of these suits fcs not teroirated until the decision of the Court r^f Appeals on the 5th day of iVerct , 19r7. Tl.e expences cf theoe suits wculd have financially ruined any inver.tcr rho did not have th o large repourcea of Edison, and it could h;.rdly le expected thct he »oulci be able to prosecute aln'ultaneously every infrVrgenent sf it arose. This last decicion oT the Court of Appeals clearly dofinod thfi Invention Edlaor. had xade, which by tlic very definition included not only the camera, tut th« motion pictare film that could be mr.de tvoiu negativea produced by .the cainera, esaential for practical ucc '^nd whicli had never boforv^ been produced . Practically .-ill of the ruanuf acturora anU iMport6»rii of motion pictumin vrho had Infringed the Edieon camera and film reissues believed, iftar this docision, that t!jf>y wore valid, t»cau8e •even o^ there look, llconaoe fr-'m the Edison Compfuiy under tyiem, only one, th j Bi^i^rajh Company, deoiinlni, at tiiC tit;ie to do so. That their vifev's v.-en. oorroct is anown by tlie fact t liat subsequently, in a suit af,:o nat t>te Ciiicu^o Film lixchangt , to w)iich me rill further refor, tht f ilr4 reissue wut; , after \igorcus contest sustained. After the atrenuoua litigation in wlilcli Kdison had been engaged in endeavo rln^^ to protect his rights, extending -10