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THIS AGREEMENT made and entered into this 29th day of April, 1912, by and between THE WRIGHT COMPANY, a New York corporation, party of the first part, and the AERO CLUB OF AMERICA, also a New York corporation, party of the second part,

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS The Wright Company, party of the first part, is the owner of certain Letters Patent No. 821393, originally issued to Orville and Wilbur Wright May 22, 1906, for inventions embodying new and useful improvements in flying machines, which Letters Patent were thereafter duly assigned to said The Wright Company; and
WHEREAS on December 22, 1911, in a suit in equity between said The Wright Company and Claude Grahame-White, of England, the United States District Court (formerly Circuit Court) for the Southern District of New York granted an Interlocutory Decree, adjudging that said Letters Patent are a good and valid patent in all respects as regards and to the extent of the subject-matter of the invention therein referred to and that said Claude Grahame-White had infringed said Letters Patent by using and flying aeroplane flying machines known as the Farman Biplane and the Bleriot Monoplane, and thereafter granted a permanent injunction enjoining said Claude Grahame-White, his clerks, agents, attorneys, servants and workmen from using, flying or exhibiting such flying machines, or any other flying machines embodying and containing the invention covered in and by said Letters Patent; and
WHEREAS a similar Decree and Injunction has be granted and entered in favor of said The Wright Company by the former United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of New York, in a like