Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Bill by the Motion Picture Patents Company against the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, the Universal Film Exchange of New York, and the Prague Amusement Company. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. This cause comes here on an appeal from a decree dismissing the complainant’s bill.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Bill by the Motion Picture Patents Company against the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, the Universal Film Exchange of New York, and the Prague Amusement Company. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. This cause comes here on an appeal from a decree dismissing the complainant’s bill. The complainant is the owner of the patent in suit (No. 707,934) for motion picture projecting machines, and on June 12, 1912, granted to the Precision Machine Company a license to manufacture and…
1Opinion of the CourtAugustus N. Hand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] It was held by this court in tire case of Victor Talking Machine Company v. Strauss, 230 Fed. 449, — C. C. A. —, that a license to use a patented talking machine upon payment of an initial royalty to cover the life of the patent and upon condition that the licensee purchase all sound records to be used with the machine from the licensor was Valid, even though the license provided that title to the machine should pass to the licensor upon the expiration of the patent if the terms of the license had been observed. The present case differs from that case…
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