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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26 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, October Term — 1916. Motion Picture Patents Company^ Petitioner, vs. In Equity. Universal Film Manufacturing COMPANY;, UNI\^RSAL F I L M Exchange of Neav York^ and Prague Amusement Company, Respondents. BRIEF FOR PETITIONER. The following points are urged in support of the foregoing petition : I. Petitioner did not make, or sell the machine Avhose use is claimed to be an infringement. It was made by a manufacturing concern that was authorized by the petitioner to make it and that was authorized by the petitioner to sell it for use only upon compliance with certain conditions specified and brought home to the purchaser. II. The patented machine is a machine for projecting motion pictures and is usable only in connection with motion picture films consisting of long strips of transparent material of indefinite length bearing a succession of photographic impressions of objects in motion.