Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Centaur Film Co.
District Court, D. New Jersey
In Equity. Suit by the Motion Picture Patents Company against the Centaur Film Company. On motions by complainant for preliminary injunction and by defendant to dismiss.
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Judge.
Letters patent No. 589,168 were granted on August 31, 1897, to Thomas A. Edison, for certain improvements in kinetoscopes. Later, on June 10, 1902, application was made for the reissue of said letters patent No. 589,168 in two divisions, the application alleging that by reason of a defective or insufficient specification, or by reason of said Thomas A. Edison claiming as his invention more than he had1' a right to claim, the original letters patent were inoperative; and on September 30, 1902, letters patent 12,037 and 12,-*248038 were issued to Edison. Letters patent…
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