The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants (1912)

Record Details:

Title:
The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants
Date:
1912
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office
Volume:
The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants
Leaf #:
00015
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 14, 2023
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OKIGINAL PETITION. 11 to mortgage, sell, lease, dispose of by agreement or otherwise^ such letters patent, licenses under letters patent, and improvements, and to license others to use the inventions covered by the said letters patent and to use such improvements; to purchase, hold, sell and convey such real and personal property as shall be lawful and adapted to the requirements of the business of the company. The certificate of incorporation of the Motion Picture Patents Company, hereinafter called the Patents Company, is attached hereto as a part of this petition marked Exhibit 1. On December 18, 1908, at a meeting in New York City attended by all the individual defendants, and all the corporation defendants being represented except the Melies Manufacturing Co., defendants, with the unlawful purposes above mentioned, executed (a) preliminary agreements for the assignment of the patents to the Patents Company, and (b) nine license agreements with the Patents Company, one being concluded by each of the manufacturers (except Melies Co., which signed a similar agreement on a later day) with the Patents Company. The terms of all these agreements had been arranged beforehand at numerous conferences between the manufacturers. On the same day, according to their previous agreement, defendants elected the following officers and directors of the Patents Company : President, Frank L. Dyer, also vice president of Edison Manufacturing Company. Vice president, H. N. Marvin, also vice president of Biograph Company. Treasurer, J. J. Kennedy, also president of Biograph Company. Secretary, George T. Scull, an attorney of the Edison Manufacturing Company.