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Trial and arbitral proceedings

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Arbitration transcripts; Court proceedings; Trial transcripts; Trials; Tribunal proceedings.

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

Seymour Yuter collection of Technitrol, Inc., lawsuit records

 Collection
Accession: 1901
Abstract:

The collection consists of copies of trial records collected by Seymour C. Yuter (dates unknown), a patent attorney for Technitrol, Inc. They include documents from the interlocking suits of Technitrol v. Control Data Corp., Technitrol v. Sperry Rand, and Technitrol v. U.S.A., which came to trial between the late 1950s and the mid 1970s. The principal point at issue was, who was the inventor of the magnetic storage drum. The records provide a fascinating picture of the early history of the computer industry and trace the role played by the military in the years immediately after World War II.

Dates: 1945-1976