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...Angeles, Addressograph-Multigraph's Bruning Division showed off two electrostatic models that it claims can produce copies at half the cost and twice the speed of Xerox machines but that require special paper. American Photocopy demonstrated its new "Dial-A-Copy," which has a telephone-like dial on which the user can order from one to ten copies, and SCM (Smith Corona-Marchant) showed its similar, dial-operated Model 44. 3M displayed six specialized machines that produce by means of heat and light sensitivity; one turns out single copies on heat-sensitive paper for about 310, and another produces...
...reason that Xerox Corp. has a quarter of the $500 million office copying field to itself is the more than 300 U.S. patents it holds covering its unique method of duplicating documents. None of them had ever been challenged in court until last week, when SCM Corp. and Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. took on Xerox in what could become one of the biggest patent fights in modern business history...
...domination of the dry-copying field (no messy, discoloring chemicals), the fastest-growing and most profitable part of the industry. Since Xerox came on the market in 1960 with its 914 model, which makes copies by dissipating an electrically charged powder onto ordinary paper, three other companies-SCM, Addressograph's Bruning division, and American Photocopy-have entered the field. The competitors' machines make copies on paper precoated with zinc oxide, a dry photoconductive chemical...
Last week the Patent Office issued Xerox a patent covering this method too, on the ground that it had worked on it first. SCM already was in court charging Xerox with overall patent "misuse"; the Xerox patent award was quickly followed by an Addressograph suit, charging Xerox with antitrust violations. In response, Xerox sued both SCM and Addressograph for patent infringement...
Bean rules his board of directors-two sons and two grandsons-with a firm hand, and brushes aside suggestions from his heir apparent, Grandson Leon Gorman, 27, that the company "automate" by buying an Addressograph. "Why expand when you're 90 years old?" demands Bean. Besides, "I get three good meals a day, and I can't eat four." Devoted to quality and his customers, Bean has a simple business philosophy...