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ORIGINAL PETITION, EXHIBIT 3. 53
No. 673992, dated May 14, 1901, for Vitascope, granted
to Thomas Armat ; No. 707934, dated August 26, 1902, for Projecting Kinetoscope, granted E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. as assignees of Woodville Latham ; No. 722382, dated March 10, 1903, for Animated Picture Apparatus, granted to American Mutoscope & Biograph Com^pany as the assignee of John A. Pross; No. 744251, dated November 17, 1903, for Kinetoscope,
granted Albert E. Smith; No. 770937, dated September 27, 1904, for Kinetoscope, granted the Vitagraph Company of America as the assignee of Albert E. Smith; No. 771280, dated October 4, 1904, for Winding-Reel
granted Albert E. Smith;
No. 785205, dated March 21, 1905, for Flame-Shield for
Kinetoscopes, granted the Vitagraph Company of
America as the assignee of William Ellwood; and
No. 785237, dated March 21, 1905, for Film-Holder for
Kinetoscopes, granted the Vitagraph Company of
America as the assignee of Albert E. Smith;
all of which said letters patent relate to improvements in
the motion picture art, and that there are no outstanding
licenses, shop rights, or other rights under said letters patent,
or either of them, except a license for Parlor Kinetoscopes
granted the Karmata Company, of Washington, D. C,
under Letters Patent Nos. 578185, 580749, 586953, and
673992, and certain alleged licenses under U. S. Letters
Patent No. 586953, which are in dispute, claimed to be
owned by the Edison Company and the American Grapho
phone Company, of Washington, D. C, and S. Lubin, of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and excepting a license granted
by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company to the
firm of Marvin and Casler to manufacture and sell cameras
and exhibiting or projecting machines under letters patent
owned by it (some of which are hereinbefore referred to)
for use in foreign countries only, and excepting certain
licenses granted by the Armat i\lotion Picture Company to
the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company under