"double gotcha" in court ruling

[Mark Mandel]

It's a place-holder. I've just answered Larry's question separately,
but you gave me one thing to clear up. I never worked for any
Dictaphone company, but rather for Dragon Systems, Inc., which L&H
also bought. "New Dictaphone" is the court's placeholder name for the
division or subsidiary that L&H set up to handle the business it
bought from [placeholder] "Old Dictaphone".

m a m

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, Dictaphone was, like Packard, once one of the best-known
> brand-names in the country, if not the world. My WAG is that "Old
> Dictaphone" refers to the original company, for which Mark once
> worked, and that "New Dictaphone" is the company that bought the
> original company and arrogated to itself the name of the old company,
> much as the company that I knew in my childhood, youth, and early
> middle age as the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, after becoming
> SBC, is now AT&T.
>
> -Wilson

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