<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:52 PM, C. Park Seward wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Also, did RCA purchase patents from Ampex or was it a trade for RCA's transistor technology?<br></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Ampex and Sony did a deal that related to Sony's transistor experience.<div><br></div><div>There are documents about what happened over time with that situation. Some think it didn't work to Ampex's long-term benefit.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps that's among the reasons the current company has been rather aggressive about protecting its patents, among them ones that are used in digital cameras, both still and moving image... DV included.</div><div><br></div><div>Those are likely to expire soon, and the company will not have income from them.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.%20flashscan8.us">flashscan8.us</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">209 East 12th Street</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Marysville, CA 95901</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Main: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(530) 741-1212</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Cell: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 12px; "> </span>(530) 301-2931</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary for the <a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/">QuadVideotapeGroup.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">: </span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.flashscan8.us"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">flashscan8.us</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> home of gentle, faster than realtime <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><i>flashscan HD</i>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">realtime <b>flashscan8, flashstransfer 16/35</b></span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">digital film transfer systems <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">a</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">nd other products from the creative engineers at MWA Nova, Berlin.</span></font></span></span></font></div></div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><a href="http://www.tedlangdell.com"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">tedlangdell.com</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">. Storytelling through Broadcast Coverage and Creative Services since 1974</span></font></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>