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

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74 are attempting to monopolize said trade and commerce in said ware. * * * That the so-called manufacturers' license agreements and the jobbers' license agreements and the price lists made part of said agreements, all described in the petition herein, have been and are the means adopted and used by the defendants in order to carry into effect the objects and purposes of said unlawful combination in restraint of said interstate trade and commerce in violation of said act of Congress, and that the said agreements and price lists are therefore hereby declared illegal and the defendants and all and each of them and their officers, agents, servants, and employees are enjoined and prohibited from doing anything in furtherance of said manufacturers'license agreements and jobbers' license agreements, and from enforcing in any manner said agreements or any of the terms thereof, and from adopting or enforcing said price lists in interstate commerce in sanitary enameled ironware. That the defendants, their officers, agents, servants, and employees, are enjoined and prohibited from continuing their attempt to monopolize interstate commerce in said ware by means of the unlawful combination hereinbefore described, and more particularly by means of said manufacturers' license agreements and jobbers' license agreements, and said price lists, or by any other means similar thereto.