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Grossman is also a partner in the law firm of Hayes,
Soloway, Hennessey, Grossman & Hage, P.C., which practices in the
area of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks,
copyrights, and trade secret protection.
Grossman's report concerning the value of the Sentinel EPE
recycler discusses the limited market for the recycled plastics
material. Grossman concluded that the Sentinel EPE recycler was
unlikely to be a successful product because of the absence of any
new technology, the absence of a continuous source of suitable
scrap, and the absence of any established market. Grossman
suggested that a reasonable comparison of the products available
in the polyethylene industry in 1981 with the Sentinel EPE
recycler reveals that the Sentinel EPE recycler had very little
commercial value and was similar to comparable products available
on the market in component form. For these reasons, Grossman
opined that the Sentinel EPE recycler did not justify the "one-
of-a-kind" pricetag that it carried.
Specifically, Grossman reported that there were several
machines on the market as early as 1981 that were functionally
equivalent to, and significantly less expensive than, the
Sentinel EPE recycler. These machines included: (1) The Buss-
Condux Plastcompactor, available before 1981 for $75,000; (2)
Foremost Machine Builders' "Densilator", available from 1978-81
for $20,000; and (3) the Midland Ross Extruder, available in 1980
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