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AUTOMATIC AGE
May, 1939
acters which were made and placed
in vending machines.
Disney Patent Suit Settled
Without Trial
Kansas City, April 15.—Judges Al­
bert L. Reeves and Merril E. Otis of
the Federal District Court entered a
judgement by agreement of the par­
ties without trial in favor of the
plaintiffs in a suit brought by the
W alt Disney Productions of Holly­
wood and Hamilton Enterprises, Inc.,
of Kansas City against a group of
local defendants for alleged misuse
of Disney’s fanciful characters.
The Hamilton concern was given
the right to use the Disney characters
on vending machines in this territory.
The suit was for damages and for
an injunction prohibiting A. E. Sand-
hous of the Great States Manufac­
turing Company and the Colonial
Sales and Novelty Company; M. E.
Sandhaus and the Great States Op­
erating Company from infringing
Disney patent rights.
Penalties Assessed
The judgement was taken into
court by John W. Hudson, attorney
for the plaintiffs, following a settle­
ment out of court. Hudson said the
decrees assessed substantial penal­
ties and the cost of the proceeding
against the defendants.
The judgement decreed the Hamil­
ton Enterprises, Inc., was the sole
and exclusive licensee of W alt Dis­
ney Productions to manufacture and
sell representations and charms of
the Disney characters in and on vend­
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ing machines for the United States
and its territorial possessions. Also
named in the suit as defendants were
the Crown Drug Company, Phil Small
and John Small, individually and as
a co-partnership doing business as the
Parkview Pharmacy; Milgram Food
Stores, Inc., A. H. Tucker and Edgar
C. Nelson, individually and as a co­
partnership doing business as the
Alexander Printing Company, and
the Acme Dekal Company, the Wein-
traub Baking Company, and Jack C.
Newton, doing business as the Belch­
er Printing Company.
All Are Enjoined
The judgement permanently en­
joined all of the defendants from
using the names of any of the Disney
characters without the written con­
sent of Walt Disney Productions or
Hamilton Enterprises.
The defendants were ordered to
surrender to the plaintiffs all repre­
sentations of the Disney fanciful
characters which they had in their
possession and had been formerly
using in and on vending machines.
The judgement decreed further the
defendants had infringed the copy­
rights and trademarks of W alt Dis­
ney Productions.
The original petition filed by Hud­
son asked the defendants be assessed
$1 for every character, charm or
paper reproduction of Disney char­
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