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You are right, I was thinking about this earlier and that I think the government forced Xerox to release laser printer patents in the mid 1980's but as an unpai

You are right, I was thinking about this earlier and that I think the government forced Xerox to release laser printer patents in the mid 1980's but as an unpaid internet commenter I ended up at an article from a decade before then.

AlbertCory 4y ago
> the government forced Xerox to release laser printer patents Really? I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I don't recall that.
- mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
  It was in the 70s and copiers. From Wikipedia: “Following these years of record profits, in 1975, Xerox resolved an anti-trust suit with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which at the time was under the direction of Frederic M. Scherer. The Xerox consent decree resulted in the forced licensing of the company's entire patent portfolio, mainly to Japanese competitors. Within four years of the consent decree, Xerox's share of the U.S. copier market dropped from nearly 100% to less than 14%.[31]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox#1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox#1970s