Chapter 55

The foregoing quotation indicates one of the reasons for the arrangement by which all Zeiss inventions were to be patented in the United States by Bausch and Lomb. There can be little doubt that American patentees of competing military optical instruments would have much more to fear in infringement litigation initiated by the American firm of Bausch and Lomb than would be the case if the real owner of the patents, the German firm of Carl Zeiss, were the patentee. The other reason for this arrangement was the fear …