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Grossman is also a partner in the law firm of Hayes,
Soloway, Hennessey, Grossman & Hage, P.C., which firm practices
in the area of intellectual property, including patents,
trademarks, copyrights, and trade secret protection.
Grossman's reports concerning the value of the Sentinel EPE
recyclers discuss the limited market for the recycled plastic
material. Grossman concluded that these recyclers were unlikely
to be successful products 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 recyclers
reveals that the recyclers had very little commercial value and
were similar to comparable products available on the market in
component form. For these reasons, Grossman opined that the
Sentinel EPE recyclers did not justify the “one-of-a-kind"
pricetag that they 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 recyclers. These machines included: (1) The Japan
Repro recycler, available in 1981 for $53,000; (2) the Buss-
Condux Plastcompactor, available before 1981 for $75,000; (3)
Foremost Machine Builders' “Densilator", available from 1978-1981
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