Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Champion Film Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit by the Motion Picture Patents Company against the Champion Film Company. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
EACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
This is an application for preliminary injunction under reissue patent No. 12,037, to Thomas A. Edison, for a kinetoscope, which was sustained and its claims construed by the Circuit Court of Appeals in this circuit in Edison v. Am. Mutoscope & B. Co., 151 Fed. 767, 81 C. C. A. 391. An earlier decision of that court discussed the original patent. 114 Fed. 926, 52 C. C. A. 546. Nothing that was said in either of these opinions need be repeated here. It is assumed that they will be consulted. They described the device of the patent and analyzed the claims so fully,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Edison v. American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1907
- Edison v. American Mutoscope Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1902
3Cited by2 opinions
- Seskin v. TriceOhio Court of Appeals · 1931
- Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Yankee Film Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1911