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一、重大挫折美国施乐公司是世界上第一台摄影复制机(复印机)的发明者,直至70年代“施乐”仍然被当作“复印操作”的同义词。该公司拥有超过1,700件关于复印过程的专利,美国的复印机订单中,大约95%是开给施乐公司的。1972年,美国联邦商业委员会起诉施乐公司,理由是该公司曲解专利法对发明创造实施一定时间保护的用意,却将其作为垄断复印机市场的一种策略,固步自封。而垄断是被《反垄断法》明文禁止的。经过几年的调查和辩论,在不必承认有错的前提下,施乐同意接受该委员会的建议,于1975年7月宣布允许其对手使用该
First, major setbacks The US Xerox Corporation was the inventor of the world’s first photocopying machine (photocopier) until the 1970s when Xerox was still used as a synonym for copy operations. The company has more than 1,700 patents on the photocopying process, and about 95% of U.S. copier orders are open to Xerox. In 1972, the US Federal Trade Commission prosecuted Xerox Corporation on the grounds that the company misinterpreted the patent law’s intention to protect the invention and creation for a certain period of time, but used it as a strategy to monopolize the copier market. Monopoly is forbidden by the Anti-Monopoly Law. After several years of investigations and debates, Xerox agreed to accept the committee’s recommendation without admitting it was wrong. In July 1975, it announced that it would allow its opponents to use the