United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others
Date:
1914
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office
Volume:
United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others
Leaf #:
00047
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
December 21, 2023
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41 pose restrictions upon the use of the projecting machine and upon commerce in positive films which contemplate an absolute control of that commerce. Mr. Albert E. Smith, the inventor of this device, in the course of a long examination as a witness for the defense, testified in regard to this patent at the following places in the record: Direct examination, III, 1715, fol. 4, to 1717; crossexamination, III, 1757, fols. 1 and 2. Mr. Smith, on page 1716, describes the framing device. He says that he considers that this improvement on the projecting machine had great potency and value in building up the business. On page 1757, fol. 1, he says the patent made an improvement on the projecting machine. (3) THE JEXKIXS-ARMAT PATEXT. This is No. 586953, granted July 20, 1897, to Charles F. Jenkins and Thomas Armat. It has, therefore, expired. Although the Armat Company assigned five patents to the Patents Company, all of them enumerated in each of the license agreements, the only one of the fixe referred to by defendants in the proof and arguments is this JenkinsArmat patent. This patent relates to the shutter of the projecting machine. No other part of the complicated projecting machine is covered by the Jenkins and Armat patent. Vol. VI, pages 3266 et seq., con