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Originally Posted by bandersen
You guys have the timeline and facts a bit off. Philo goes back much further. He filed his patents in the 20s and had his battle with RCA in the 30s. He won in 1938 with RCA agreeing to pay royalties.
Then the war broke out and production was halted. Unfortunately for Philco, by the time the war was over and TV resumed, his patent had expired.
Farnsworth Television and Radio Corp was based in Fort Wayne and operated from 1938 to 1951. It was bought out by ITT in '51.
Farnsworth bought Capehart in 1938 using the money he won from RCA.
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Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that Farnsworth was the one who originally designed the technology that made TV as we know it now possible and that RCA did indeed try to take Farnsworth for a ride when it comes to trying to get his patents which he did as you said eventually win out in court over RCA but then by the time it was all said and done his patents ran out which basically meant that RCA could then take those patents and claim them for themselves (even though they really werent theirs to begin with)
hence why RCA was considered a dirty operator for many years was because they basically held a monopoly over the patents for many various electronics technologies including ones that weren't originally theirs to begin with, which is why if you look up some of the patent numbers on the back of many old RCA and RCA Clone/licensed TVs you'll see that they are actually patents originally assigned to Philo Farnsworth and then in small print under the original patent assignee is the words "reassigned to RCA".