Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clumsily paraphrasing the poet at Polaroid Corp.'s annual meeting last week, Chairman Edwin Land said that "to the rest of the photographic industry, instant photography is a thing apart. To Polaroid, it is the whole of life." By "the rest" of the industry, Land meant Eastman'Kodak, which six days earlier had introduced two instant-picture cameras of its own (TIME, May 3), threatening Polaroid with its first serious competition since Land invented instant photography three decades ago. Though Kodak's entry had long been anticipated, Land viewed it as an illegal incursion on turf that...
...suit, filed at literally the last minute (4:59 p.m.) in Boston's U.S. District Court the day before both Polaroid and Kodak held their annual meetings, charges Kodak with violating ten Polaroid patents for instant film and cameras-two of them filed by Land personally. Along with triple damages, the suit asks the court to block Kodak from selling its cameras, which it had planned to do starting this month in Canada and late next month...
Prancing and gesturing in front of a giant photograph of Renoir's painting The Dance at Bougival (taken by an experimental Polaroid camera that reproduces works of art with startling fidelity), Land put on a virtuoso performance for the stockholders. He passionately defended the U.S. patent system: "We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents." He' twitted Kodak's new camera, saying that "the new group would like to confine...
Patent Attack. Land's performance skirted the questions of whether 30 years is long enough, in the U.S. competitive system, for a company to have a market all to itself and of how sound the legal basis is for Polaroid's suit. Kodak brushed off the suit. In a formal statement issued in the U.S., it denied knowingly violating any "valid" patents, and it promptly sued in Canada to have Polaroid's patents declared invalid...
Chagnon's findings are anything but quaint notes on a primitive people. For one thing, the Yãnomamõ culture challenges the reigning academic theory that primitive wars are mainly fought over land, water or some other natural resource. What makes the Yãnomamõ anthropologically interesting is that all their wars are waged to capture women or in retaliation for such abductions...