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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut
For companies that developed lots of patents, a patent suit negotiation often went by both parties bringing their stacks of patents, and then "I'll drop one if you'll drop one" - and onward until the company with the fewest had none to trade - and RCA always had the biggest stack.
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Back in the 80's, I invented a few patents for RCA at their Smirnoff Labs. And yes, we did "play poker" with the competitors. The Lab;s mission was to generate more "cards" for this "game". It was a great job, until GE raped and pillaged RCA...
