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Commercial warfare erupted last week between two technological titans. International Business Machines Corp. invaded the $1.5 billion-a-year office-copier market by bringing out a machine remarkably similar to a couple made by Xerox Corp., which has long dominated the field. The venture is IBM's most ambitious foray into a new market in the decade since Thomas Watson Jr. took over as chairman. Xerox countered with a lawsuit charging 22 patent infringements and asking a federal district court in Manhattan to prevent IBM from selling its new product...
...Pont has enthroned research and development and staked its future on it: $255 million was spent on it last year. The company has 17 technically proven but so far unmarketed "new ventures" in process. Some are secret, but others include an office copier that uses ordinary paper, a range of plastic building materials, and a new desalination process. Speaking about the copier, Everett B. Yelton, director of the development department, says: "We may just be too late. Perhaps we should have moved faster...
...Cover: Statue of John Harvard. Photo collage done with electrostatic copier and gouache by Louis Glanzman...
...distant second to Xerox in the duplicating-machine area, 3M began field-testing its "color in color" copier last spring, says it will start delivering the machines on both a selling and a leasing basis within a year. To woo customers, 3M will, beginning early in 1969, open six display centers across the U.S. One of the most important selling points is that 3M's pioneering copier, by contrast with early color television, boasts high-quality color-in solids and halftones alike...
...Despite its substantial head start toward that rainbow of riches, 3M has every reason to respect the competition. RCA and Polaroid, which are both newcomers to the duplicating-machine business, are still working on color-copying processes of their own. Then, of course, there is always Xerox, whose color copier, when it comes out, will almost inevitably...