Re[2]: Letow Schnapps
January 2nd, 2009 From
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>Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:57:48 -0500
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>From: Marc James Small
>Subject: Re: Re[2]: Letow Schnapps
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>At 01:45 PM 12/17/97 GMT, Bill Riddle wrote:
> > I suspect they were “good capitalists” with their license revenues
> > waiting for them after the war. So that they had funds on hand to get
> > back to work with after the inevitable departure of the Austrian
> > Corporal.
>
>
>Oh, NO! ALL German assets, including patents, copyrights, and trade-marks,
>were seized by the US government in early 1942. They were administered by
>the US Alien Properties Office and were auctioned off in the ’50’s. There
>are some grand tales as to how Leitz regained control of their American
>agency and of the poor relations between Carl Zeiss and its American agency
>in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s (you see, the American agency head, Dr
>Bauer, one of the inventors of lens coatings, insisted on doing business
>with those EAST German guys … )
>
>If any royalties were paid, they were paid to the US Government. The
>German companies would not have gotten a dime.
>
>Marc
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