Motion Picture Patents Company v. Universal Film Manufacturing Company Et Al. - Supreme Court of the United States

Motion Picture Patents Company v. Universal Film Manufacturing Company Et Al.

By Supreme Court of the United States

  • Release Date: 1917-04-09
  • Genre: Law

Description

In this suit relief is sought against three defendant corporations as joint infringers of claim number seven of United States letters patent No. 707,934 granted to Woodville Latham, assignor, on August 26, 1902, for improvements in Projecting-Kinetoscopes. It is sufficient description of the patent to say that it covers a part of the mechanism used in motion picture exhibiting machines for feeding a film through the machine with a regular, uniform and accurate movement and so as not to expose the film to excessive strain or wear.