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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19 Exhibit B. (2) That there is no proof of joint infringement as alleged. (3) That the patent is invalid. 55 Mel\^lle Church and George F. Scull, Counsel for Appellant. Edmund Wetmore, John B. Stanchfield and Oscar W. Jeffery, Counsel for Appellees. Augustus X. Hand, District Judge : It was held by this Court in the case of Victor Talking Machine Company vs. Straus, 230 Fed., 419, that a license to use a patented talking ma 56 chine upon payment of an initial royalty to cover the life of the patent and upon condition that the licensee purchase all sound records to be used Avith the machine from the licensor was valid, even though the license provided that title to the machine should pass to the licensor upon the expiration of the patent if the terms of the license had been observed. The present case ditters from that case because here the title to the machine at once passed by the sale of the projecting machine to the 72nd Street Amusement Company. We think this case comes within the doctrine of Bauer vs. O^Don 57 nell, 229 U. S., 1, rather than that of Dick vs. Henry y 224 U. S., 1. This is especially true since the enactment of the so-called Clayton Bill, which provides : 'That it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, w^ares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities, wiiether patented or unpatented, for use, con