Rectifier

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1944 Raytheon built up business good will on a rectifier tube that it developed, patented, and licensed to manufacturers. RCA licensed a competing tube to many of the same manufacturers, with a clause requiring the licensee to only buy from RCA.
1944 Raytheon Production Corp. v. Commissioner
1944 RCA paid $410,000 to settle Raytheon's claims under the Federal Anti-Trust Laws, but in the same transaction also acquired rights to some 30 patents, and declined to state how much of its payment should be allocated between the patent license rights v
Mercury-arc valve rectifier