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)

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payment of %;.. , ..o^.^ thorefor. The noving pictures trith wl ich tho projoctlnj; rnacydneo could bo uned wore designated as moving picturoo containing the invention of reissue p«tef.t -^o. 12,10i., morely a.T a short way of describing and identifying cuch article, e full doncrlption being found in the claims of the Edieon film reissue. Tho 4th paragraph of tiio license required the licensees to uoe exciuaivoly raw film procured from a manufacturer or manufacturers w}jo, by pji agreeciont with the Patents Conpany, was or were to collect and pay tc it the royoltioa on the raw film furninhod the licensee. Tho Ibastman Kodak Conpany was selected, and an agreement made between it ana t)ie i'otents Company oerly in 1909, which wT.o terminnble on sixty days' notice by oithor party, whereby the Eastman Company was to furnish row film of a r.tandard width such as tho manufacturers used, and to no one else in the United Stntes, except to persons for prectically scientific U30, f.nO except to concerns not lioonsoes v;},ich had an established Lusinesn of making motion pictures in foreij-n countries, Olid who, at tiie time of tie agree),ont, made tho tran.e in tljc United ijtatea , or v.ho might after t Ixit time cniriionce to make the saiae there. It had a patent covering tho raw film, and it aloo -2b