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Sperry Rand (Corporation)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand records, 1935-1973

 Series
Accession: 1825-IIdentifier: 1825-I-I.
Scope and Content:

The Honeywell-Sperry Rand lawsuit produced 50,000 pages of trial transcript, and over 36,000 documents were entered in evidence. Sperry Rand's lawyers produced a huge archive of trial documents. Two major files were created, the "Original file" of documents from Sperry Rand's own archives, and the "Chronological file" of all documents located during the discovery process and entered as exhibits. The trial archive is a major source on the history of the computer industry.

Dates: 1935-1973

Legal papers

 Series
Accession: 1825-IIdentifier: 1825-I-II.
Scope and Content:

The Legal papers document Sperry-UNIVAC's efforts to defend and license the ENIAC patent. This series contains patent interference files as well as the records generated by the Sperry attorneys who worked on the Sperry-Rand vs. Bell Laboratories case (1956-1957) the Sperry Rand vs. IBM case (1963-1964). This series also contains a fragment of the legal correspondence generated by the Sperry-Honeywell suit.

Dates: 1935-1985

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