At 23:53 8.2.2001 +0100, you wrote:
>As I wote some time ago, the Pentax name was KW/Pentacon (tm) in South
>Africa only, where they marketed cine projectors under that brand name.
>KW already used the name Pentax for a prototype medium format camera which
>never saw light as a mass-produced product.
>It looks like they missed registering the Pentax name (since for some time
>the eastern block didn't agree on western rules about patents and copyright)
>and Asahi could take it (but South-Africa). It is evident that some time
>later Asahi agreed with Pentacon about the Pentax name in South Africa too.
>
>Bye,
>
>Dario Bonazza
Sorry Dario, I forgot about your post. Thanks for clarification!
It's interesting to know it, I will forward it to the other group :) There
the history-minded would like it.
Frantisek
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