On 10/02/2012 02:52, William Robb wrote:
On 09/02/2012 3:15 PM, mike wilson wrote:
On 09/02/2012 16:28, Darren Addy wrote:
Surely one of the real assets that Pentax carries with it is its name
and name
recognition.
I was going to say "no" to this. Then, remembering that the whole world
and its dog has owned Pentax recently and therefore had access to its
coating technology, I thought that you are probably right. All Pentax
has now is a name.
Having had access to their coating technology is not the same as being
able to take advantage of it now. If the SMC patents stayed with Pentax,
then whatever Hoya does, they won't be using SMC coatings on it.
Pentax is as much a name as Nikon is, FWIW.
Nikon has been little more than a blip on Mitsubishi's balance sheet for
some 3 decades now. Funny how no one disses Nikon for that.
If you had hold of the company, would you let it go without some
agreement on technology use?
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