Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Viability of Leica; my 2 cents
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:10:47 -0500

At 03:05 PM 11/10/1999 -0500, Andrew S Jordan wrote:
>The name is worth a fortune for optical products.
>Moreover,  it happened at least in two other instances(Zeiss and
>Voigtlander)

I am horrified.  The name "Zeiss" has certainly NOT been "sold":  it is
very firmly held by the Carl Zeiss lensworks of Oberkochen and Jena, a
subsidiary of the Carl Zeiss Foundation of Heidenheim and Jena.  Nor was
the Voigtlander name "sold":  it was merely licensed to Cosina by its
current (very German) owners.

Marc

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