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MOTION PICTURE CO. v. UNIVERSAL FILM CO.

No. 715.

243 U.S. 502 (1917)

MOTION PICTURE PATENTS COMPANY v. UNIVERSAL FILM MANUFACTURING COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 9, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Melville Church for petitioner.

Mr. Oscar W. Jeffery, with whom Mr. Edmund Wetmore and Mr. John B. Stanchfield were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

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...

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