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IN REFRIGERATION LED TO SWEET TREATS LIKE ICE CREAM IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY, SOME OF THE FIRST COMPANIES TO DEVELOP ICE CREAM BARS WERE THE GOOD HUMOR...
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STORY THAT I'M GOING TO TELL IS REALLY ONE THAT IS UNUSUAL BUT NOT UNUSUAL. ONE OF THINGS ABOUT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES IS THAT IT IS A FACILITY THAT...
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| 00:07:49 |
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WERE LOOKING AT ICE CREAM AS BEING A FOOD PRODUCT. THAT REALLY DOES GO INTO THIS XIKT WE'RE HAVING ON WHAT'S COOKING. MANY PORTIONS TALK ABOUT THE ...
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| 00:34:59 |
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HERE. >> IN ALL OF THE TO AND
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| 00:35:02 |
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FRO WITH THE POPSICLES VERSUS THE ICE CREAM BARS, WHAT ABOUT THESE OTHER HAND HELD ICE CREAM CONFECTOIONS THAT WERE OUT THERE, ICE CREAM SANDWICHES --...
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| 00:35:26 |
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THERE ARE LOTS OF NOVELTIES, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THEM GOING ON AT THIS POINT. THE KLONDIKE BAR THAT WE KNOW TODAY IS SORT OF THE SAME AS THE ESKIMO...
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| 00:36:17 |
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PATENTS HAVE A SHELF LIFE, ARE THEY GOOD FOR SO MANY YEARS? >> I IMAGINE PATENTS
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| 00:36:22 |
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DO HAVE A SHELF LIFE. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE SHELF LIFE IS BUT THAT'S ACTUALLY THE CRUX OF THIS PARTICULAR BATTLE BECAUSE BOTH NABISCO HAD THE PATENT...
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| 00:37:09 |
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JEFFERSON, JUST A QUICK QUESTION DURING THE 1920s, HOW MUCH DIDN'T THEY JOIN FORCES TO TRY TO PUT OTHER COMPANIES OUT OF BUSINESS? >> POPSICLE AND
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| 00:37:22 |
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GOOD HUMOR DID JOIN FORCES AFTER THE AGREEMENT IN 1925, HISTORIC JOINTLY FIGHTING, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ENFRINGED UPON THE PATENTS OWNED JOINTLY BY...
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| 00:39:49 |
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THAT. SO POPSICLE WAS ACQUIRED IN 1923 BY GOOD HUMOR? IS THAT THE DATE? >> NO, I'M NOT SURE WHEN IT
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| 00:39:59 |
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WAS ACQUIRED, I IMAGINE LATE 20th CENTURY CENTURY. >> IS THERE
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| 00:40:05 |
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ANY STATISTICS SHOWN THAT COMES OUT OF WHICH BRAND WAS MORE POPULAR AT THE TIME FOR WHY THEY PURCHASED POPSICLE? >> I'M NOT
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| 00:40:12 |
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SAYING THAT THERE'S ANYTHING -- ANY DATA, NO DATA THAT WAS ACTUALLY PUT TOGETHER EXCEPT THEY -- OCCASIONALLY THEY WOULD SAY, WE SOLD 100,000 POPSICLES...
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| 00:42:17 |
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YES, SIR. >> THE LAWSUIT THAT
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| 00:42:19 |
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YOU DESCRIBED SEEMS PRETTY INTERESTING THAT YOU HAVE A CONTRACTUAL DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO OF WHAT I ASSUME WERE THE BIGGEST COMPANIES IN THIS MARKET,...
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| 00:42:46 |
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ANTITRUST ALLEGATIONS IN THIS ONE BECAUSE I THINK THAT WHAT THEY WERE DOING IS -- IT WAS NOT NOT TRYING TO CORNER THE MARKET. THEY WERE TRYING TO...
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| 00:43:55 |
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MA'AM. >> COULD YOU TELL ME
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| 00:43:58 |
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WHERE FUDGEICLES FIT INTO THIS? >> FUDGEICLES, I'M NOT SURE,
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| 00:44:05 |
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THE INTERESTING THING IS THAT IF I TOOK THIS FURTHER ON, I PROBABLY COULD FIND OUT THINGS LIKE FUDGEICLES OR EVEN THE FACT THAT -- I PICKED THIS PARTICULAR...
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| 00:44:42 |
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THINGS. ARE THERE PATENTS PEPDING DOWN ON THE MANUFACTURER OF ANY OF THESE FOODS, ICE CREAMS ARE POPSICLES. >> IN REGARDS TO
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| 00:44:52 |
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THE PATENTS THEMSELVES, I'M NOT SURE WHETHER THEY ARE STILL ACTIVE PATENTS. THEY MAY STILL BE ACTIVE IN THE SENSE THAT PATENTS CAN BE RENEWED, SO THEY...
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| 00:45:13 |
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A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PRODUCT TODAY, DOES HE HAVE TO BE AWARE OF EXISTING PATENTS? >> IF
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| 00:45:20 |
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SOMEBODY'S TRYING TO DO A SIMILAR PRODUCT TODAY THEY WOULD HAVE TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THE PATENTS ARE STILL VALID. AND THAT WAS PART OF THE WHOLE FROZEN...
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| 00:46:13 |
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ANY ACTIVITY TODAY? I MEAN, IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO PUT OUT SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT, IS HE LIABLE TO BE SUED? >> AGAIN, I -- IF THE -- I
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| 00:46:24 |
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WOULD ALWAYS CHECK WITH THE GOOD PATENT LAWYER TO MAKE SURE WHAT'S ACTIVE AND WHAT HAPPENS NOT. I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT WHEN I WAS A KID...
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| 00:47:07 |
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THAT A SEPARATE PAT SNENT I REMEMBER THAT WAS ANOTHER ICE CREAM THAT I -- IT DOES HAVE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT DESIGN. >> THAT'S A TOTALLY
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| 00:47:15 |
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SEPARATE DESIGN, SEPARATE PATENT. >> WAS
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| 00:47:17 |
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THERE ANY COMMERCIAL TIE-IN, THERE WAS A SONG "POPSICLE" IN THE '60s POP LARK I REMEMBER. DO YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT THAT? >> DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
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| 00:47:26 |
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ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR ONE, SORRY. ANYBODY ELSE? THANK YOU. COME TO THE ARCHIVES TODAY. >>
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.