Legal Opinion
Vincent I. Whitman v. Walt Disney Productions, Inc., a Corporation Walter E. Disney, an Individual John Doe One
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 27, 1958No. 15608PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARNES, Circuit Judge.
On March 30, 1937, there was issued to plaintiff United States Letters Patent No. 2,075,684. This invention was a composite system of photography and particularly a motion picture photography wherein a portion of a still background scene pictorially recorded is photographed with superimposed visual actions which occur in the foreground.
Prior to 1939, plaintiff saw the motion picture “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” produced by these defendants, and determined that the process used in producing it infringed his patent.
From the stipulation of facts in this case we find…
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