... the Marantz/Philips team was sued for
[/font]copyright infringement
[/font] for the illegal use of the
[/font]ESOTEC
[/font] name which had been filed a few years back by another japanese company.
[/font]
The case being undefendable, Philips had no other solution than to get rid of the Superscope-chosen name, quickly sell at discount prices what was in stock with the
[/font]ESOTEC
[/font] name, redo advertising, redo catalogs with (or even without) a generic "
[/font]E Series
[/font]" tag (1983) and launch new production batches without the name. Costly.
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