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Originally Posted by Carmine
Japanese patent royalties were worth more than their US sales revenues, and were a primary driver for the GE takeover.
... As far as I'm concerned, the fact that his monument is abandoned and in ruins is somewhat poetic justice.
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That matches up from what I heard when I worked at RCA Smirnoff Labs. That the royalties from the patents we invented there could easily pay for running the place. Well, of course, no business would keep the Labs if they didn't see money coming from it...