Word: magnetos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch incorporated Bosch Magneto Co. of New York it was to be a subsidiary of his Robert Bosch Aktiengesellschaft. But in 1917 the U. S. company was seized as alien property, sold, reorganized as American Bosch Magneto Co. In 1921 Herr Bosch again invaded U. S. markets, forming Robert Bosch Magneto Co., Inc., of Long Island City. Quickly American Bosch Co. brought suit, charged they alone had right to the Bosch name, won a verdict that prevented Inventor Bosch from using his name on products marketed...
...action but by an agreement with his U. S. rivals. Closely did this follow rumors that German Bosch had been buying stock in U. S. Bosch. Terms of the plan (which will last 49 years) are that in the U. S., its dependencies, Canada. Mexico and Cuba, American Bosch Magneto Co. can use on all its products the magic name Bosch and the German interests must use the full title, Robert Bosch, while in other parts of the world the German's will use Bosch, and the U. S. company American Bosch...
...Bendix Aviation is another channel whereby General Motors has recently entered aviation. Bendix Aviation combines Bendix Brake Co., Eclipse Machine Co., Delco Aviation, Stromberg Motor Devices and Scintilla Magneto, and since last week Pioneer Instrument. In forming Bendix Aviation the Curtiss, Wright, United and Aviation Corp. interests worked with General Motors...
Last week, however. Inventor Bosch found himself legally excluded from his U. S. markets. During 1917 hysteria Bosch Magneto Co. of New York was one of the many "enemy owned" companies which were sold at public auction by the U. S. Alien Property Custodian. One Martin Kern purchased it for $4,500,000,* resold it soon after to American Bosch Magneto Corp. which had incorporated for the purpose of buying Kern's Bosch stock. In 1921 Inventor Bosch initiated a new attack on U. S. markets and incorporated the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. to sell German-made Bosch products. Hence...
...Court Justice Thomas C. T. Grain, therefore declared on those merits of the case which were, admissible, ruled the Bosch name an American Bosch Corp. property, denied to Inventor Bosch the right to use his own name to sell his own products. Should the appeal of the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. fail to reverse Justice Grain's decision. Inventor Bosch will have to market his magnetoes, spark plugs, et al., under a new trade mark. Other purchasers of properties under the Alien Property Act will find in the Bosch precedent a promised security from competition of former German owners...