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Ellsberg rented a Xerox copier part time for about four months from a friend, Lynda R. Sinay, 27, who ran a Los Angeles advertising agency that was slipping into bankruptcy. Granted immunity from prosecution, she told the grand jury that Ellsberg made about 3,000 copies from her machine, working in her offices at night when no employees were there. He paid her $150. Ellsberg even enlisted the help of his two children, Robert, now 14, and Mary, 12, in the arduous copying task. When Ellsberg joined M.I.T. as a senior research associate in 1970, he transported the copied documents...
Richard Cauldon, owner of the fourth copier, Reproductions, Inc. would only comment that the price war is "suicidal...
Denying Xerox's accusations, Bart M. Stevens, president of IBM's office-products division, said that the new copier uses a "specially developed photoconductor" that IBM patented in 1965. The 40-in.-high model can churn out letter-or legal-size copies at a 600-per-hour rate from a roll of plain white paper. It sells for $19,200 or rents for $200 a month plus 2.3? per copy...
...suit, Xerox said that it had twice refused IBM's request for a license to produce xerographic office copiers. But IBM is licensed to use Xerox processes for computer equipment. The suit accused IBM of using trade secrets provided under that agreement to produce its new office copier. In IBM's process, an image of the original document is picked up by a photoconductive drum. A toner powder, mixed with developer fluid, cascades over the drum, which then transfers the image electrostatically onto the copying paper...
...probably take several years to rule on the patent suit. Merely by filing the suit, Xerox served warning to other firms that it will fight hard against all challengers. Solidly entrenched Xerox is likely to suffer less from the new rivalry than other firms in the torridly competitive office-copier field. Xerox's 70% share of the market is based largely on an array of patents that give it a continuing capacity to bring out improved equipment...