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 #:
00081
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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was at once began oa tl.e iaat reiasue, .ynich suit ie now pend :..r. Grosvenor refers to tiie i'atents Corflpan/ navinji to pay 4150. for prosecuting one of t.-ie caaea on the camera roi33ue th-it haU been ourrc. de rod while efforts were being made to obtain tho reissue numbered 12, '62'j, It wks clearly within the rig}it3 of the i'atents C^oinpa.'.y to carry on thJB :;uit, becau.jO tna rcissuu nignt not have 'oeen granted, or \,he Patents Go.-apftiny lai^jht hav3 coi:cludod to go to final hearing under the one that -^as surrandcred, abandoning the application for the new reissue. ihorc is no q.ieation that the first three claims of tla,3 reissue, wliich are the sarte as in the one surrendered, cover an original, moritorious and exceedingly valuable invention. If the i'atents Company cjinnot eventually succeed in preventing the piiat'.ng oi tiiia valuable inveiition and enforcing the monrpoly which the law Intended to give, it vdll be purely on the grounr' of a narrow teohnic "llty , v/hich no court of equity h ^s hof-etofo.-c sustained, and v'hich should not appeal to any co'.irt of eq'iity. Concflrnrng the Edison film reissue, v« would nay that Mr. GroBVonor'fl suggestion that it was considered by Edison and -38