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

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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 #:
00057
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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51 The Circuit Court of Appeals in the first Edison suit had before it the entire question as to the real invention or inventions that Edison had made in view of the prior art, either in camera or in picture film, and the court held that the art was so far advanced that no principle remained to be discovered, or essentially new form of machine to be invented; that Edison was not the inventor of the film, and was not as to the camera a pioneer in the large sense of the term, or in the more limited sense in which he would have been if he had also invented the film; that he was not the first to take photographs of an object in motion by means of a single-lens camera or from a single point of view; or to so take such pictures at a high rate of speed; or to so take them upon a sensitized surface having an intermittent feed, the photographs being taken during the period of rest. And the court held specifically that the picture film covered by claim 5 of 589168 was not patentable to Edison, did not constitute patentable subject matter, was not novel in the sense of the patent laws. As to positives not being covered, the court said of the entire patent No. 589168 (11-1 Fed., 929) : The patent in suit pertains merely to that branch of the art which consists of the production of suitable negatives.