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The Fall of the U.S. Consumer Electronics Industry: An American Trade Tragedy »

Authors: Philip J. Curtis
ISBN-13: 9780899308807, ISBN-10: 0899308805
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: November 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Philip J. Curtis

PHILIP J. CURTIS is a semi-retired Corporate and Civil Litigation Lawyer with over 40 years experience.

Book Synopsis

Based largely on unpublished records of evidence adduced in Zenith's litigation fights to survive over the last 40 years.

	List of Exhibits and Appendices
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	The Age in Which the Electronics Conspiracies Began	1
	Origins of General Electric	3
	Growing Public Outrage against Big Business Trusts	4
	Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890	6
	General Electric and the New Antitrust Law	18
2	Zenith Challenges the Patent Racket	23
	Who Was This Challenger, Zenith?	23
	McDonald Joins the Partnership and Moves Zenith into National Prominence	25
	Background of the Zenith Challenge	31
	Zenith Declares War on the RCA Patent Racket	33
	A New Front is Opened in Chicago	46
	Pretrial Discovery in Europe	54
	Developments in Canada	69
	Pretrial Preparation	70
3	Trial Is Imminent	75
	Review of the Prospective Trial Evidence: Background and Origin of the Conspiracy	75
	General Electric and American Marconi; RCA and David Sarnoff	79
	The "Package License" Weapon Wielded by RCA	86
	Zenith's Concern over the Government's Concern	92
	The Settlement between Zenith and RCA et al.	97
4	"It Ain't Over Till It's Over"	103
	Who or What Was Hazeltine?	104
	Sarnoff's Revenge	106
	The Japanese Television Cartel	108
	The Dumping Case at Treasury	116
	Abrogation of Timely Remedy	118
	Cartel Lobbyists and Lawyers Scuttle Law Enforcement	119
	Japan's New Political Influence Apparatus	148
5	Japanese Government Subsidies	153
	Zenith Petitions for the Levy of Countervailing Duties	153
	Zenith Files Suit over the Commodity Tax Subsidy	177
	The Supreme Court Reviews the Case	179
6	The Final Battle: Matsushita et al. v. Zenith	185
	Zenith Files Treble-Damage Case	187
	How the Cartel Operated	191
	The Twice-Ambushed Trial	199
	The Aftermath	209
	Justice Thurgood Marshall's Tragic Swing Vote	214
	GE and RCA Exploit the Justice Department's "Anti-Antitrust" Policy	223
	Afterword	229
	Appendices	233
	Bibliography	331
	Index	335