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

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106 OEIGINAL PETITION, EXHIBIT 7. 4. Wliereas, the Licensee desires to obtain from the Licensor a hcense under said reissued Letters Patent 12192, and to lease positive motion pictures in certain territory, for use in exhibiting or projecting machines containing the inventions, or any of them, described and claimed in said Letters Patent Nos. 578185, 580749, 586953, 588916, 673329, 673992, 707934, 722382, 744251, 770937, 771280, 785205, and 785237, and to sell positive motion pictures in certain other territory ; 5. Now, therefore, the parties hereto, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to each paid by the other, and for other good and valuable considerations from each to the other moving, receipt of all of which is hereby acknowledged, have agreed as follows: 6. The Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee, for the term and subject to the covenants, conditions, and stipulations hereinafter expressed, the right and license for the United States, its territories, dependencies, and possessions (hereinafter called the ''territory aforesaid ^^ to have positive motion pictures manufactured for it by ''Patents Company Licensees," and which motion pictures it shall own, on film of a greater width than approximately one inch, embodying the inventions of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12192, from negative motion pictures made in foreign countries and which are procured by it from others than "Patents Company Licensees," and to purchase positive motion pictures manufactured in foreign countries, and to lease said positive motion pictures, so manufactured for and purchased by it, in the United States, its territories, dependencies, and possessions (with the exceptions of its insular possessions and x41aska), hereinafter referred to as the "lease territory aforesaid," to motion picture exhibitors upon condition that they be used solely in exhibiting or projecting machines containing the inventions or some of them of said Letters Patent Nos. 578185, 580749, 586953, 588916, 673329, 673992, 707934, 722382, 744251, 770937, 771280, 785205, and 785237, and licensed by the Licensor and to sell said positive motion pictures so manufactured for and