The $25 million RCA/GE boombox lawsuit
The story about how Thomson Consumer Electronics (makers of RCA and GE) got caught using unauthorized knockoff components in their 1990s boomboxes, took the case to trial, and lost. Time flow: 0:00 Introduction 0:45 RCA radio 1:45 RCA CD player 3:34 RCA cassette playback 4:23 RCA cassette recording 5:39 Cassette mechanism lawsuit 8:21 A look inside the RCA 10:18 RCA cassette mechanism 12:04 Tanashin patent 12:45 GE cassette mechanism 13:39 GE circuitry & testing 15:08 Conclusion #RetroTech #cassette #PatentLaw
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