"At Tobe Rutherford's – Tobe, Philo III, Rem" 8/25/76 Side 2 Part 2., 1976

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Scope and Contents

They talk about Ski and although they all say he wasn't usually an integral part of the business, they recount a story where he was able to shift an early negotiation in England dramatically in their favor.
They talk about the end of Phil's time at Philco and how unhappy the company was when he left.
Tobe tells a story about Philco trying to license RCA patents for less than they should by selling items from one company to another rather than directly to consumers because the price for licensing was based on income. This didn't work.
At that time, Philco was licensing radio patents from RCA and television patents from Farnsworth, giving them advanced royalties on projected sales under the condition that the Farnsworth lab would move to Philco.
After the television research had sufficiently developed, they brought in their own engineers and tried to ensure that eventually they would no longer need to give these advances to Farnsworth.
Tobe believed that the company board at Philco was extremely interested in getting in early on the television, not necessarily one main person unlike at RCA where Sarnov was clearly the most interested.

Dates

1976

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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