Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/10

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [RF List] Noktonal adventures
From: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:07:19 -0400

At 12:22 AM 6/10/02 -0400, dante@umich.edu wrote:
>
>This is dry stuff, but I was plowing through a copyright issue at work and
>noticed two citations which led me to
>
>(a) the story of who owned the Zeiss name (and I presume the Voigtlander
>too)  after World War II
>
>http://www.dantestella.com/technical/zeissname.html
>
>(b) the story of who owned the Leitz name after the war
>
>http://www.dantestella.com/technical/leicaname.html
>

The Leitz case only applied to Ernst Leitz New York, not to the German
rights.  Keller covers this in great detail in his history of ELNY.

Marc

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