Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Laemmle
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suits by the Motion Picture Patents Company against Carl Laemmle and the Independent Moving Pictures Company of America, and against the'Imp Films Company and Carl Laemmle. On 'final hearing. Decrees for complainant against the corporation defendants, and dismissed as to defendant Laemmle.
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, District Judge.
The suits are brought to restrain infringement of letters patent reissue No. 13,329 for-kinetoscopes or motion picture cameras, granted December 5, 1911.
The patent is a reissue of reissue No. 12,037 dated September 30,. 1902, which itself was a reissue of original patent No. 589,168 dated August 31, 1897.
The defenses are: (1) Invalidity; (2) noninfringement; and (3) unreasonable delay so as to render the reissue void. At the outset, an outline of the history of the litigation is desirable.
The original patent was passed upon by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second…
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