Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and brief in support thereof (1916)

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13 Exhibit A. 37 machine was liconsod (iiicludino tho patent in suit), and also the followinj*" lej>end : ^'The sale and purchase of this machine gives only the right to use it solely with moving pictures containing the invention of Reissued Patent ^^o. 12,192, leased by a licensee of the Moion Picture Patents Company, the owner of the above patents and reissued patent, while it ow^ns said patents, and upon other terms to be fixed by the Motion Picture Patents Company and complied with by the user while it is in use and w^hile the Motion Picture Patents Company owns said patents. The removal or defacement of this plate terminates the right to use thivs machine.' Subsequent to the execution of this agreement Eeissued Letters Patent 12,192 expired and the invention thereby covered became public property. Subsequent to such expiration of said patent the defendant Universal Film Manufacturing Company made a reel of film which embodied the invention of said expired re-issued Letters Patent. That 39 film it sold to the defendant the Universal Film Exchange, Avhich in turn furnished it for use to the defendant the Prague Amusement Company. Also subsequent to the expiration of said reissued Letters Patent the 72d Street Amusement Company was lawfully in possession of a machine suitable for exhibiting picture film made and sold by the Precision Machine Company embodying the invention of the patent in suit and bearing upon it a plate with the inscription hereinabove set forth. The T2d Street Amusement Company had as