Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Explanation high production cost
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 22:01:36 -0400

At 09:06 AM 4/17/98 +0900, Ken lisaka wrote:
>By the Allies.  Then, they gave it to the Japanese so that the allies
>would have a cheaper source of equipment.

Nope.  The Allies didn't "own" any of the patents to "give" them to the
Japanese, nor did the Allies ever claim to "own" these intellectual
properties.  They simply said, on the grounds of political expedience, that
they would permit the Japanese to steal the German patents.

Marc


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