Cinema Patents Co. v. Duplex Motion Picture Industries, Inc.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a companion suit to Cinema Patents Company, Inc., v. Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (C. C. A.) 66 F.(2d) 744, this day deeided. The defendant corporation manufactured and sold machines for processing motion picture film. Prior to 1925 or 1926 it manufactured a form of apparatus substantially similar to the Warner machino. The film was fed straight through, as distinguished from the transverse spiral travel of the Gaumont patents, and the emulsion surface was not kept outermost, injury to the emulsion side being avoided by the use of recessed sprockets and rollers.…