Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“I think Howard Lincoln was the personal lawyer first of the two guys who ran the import distribution business.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…I think we talked about this with Michael, but this is where it comes out in the court case. Sid would refer to the legal arm of MCA Universal and their legal suit activities as a profit center for the company. He files suit against Nintendo of America for infringing on his King Kong trademark. Nintendo, led by Seattle lawyer Howard Lincoln, who would go on to succeed Arakawa as the president of Nintendo of America. I think Howard Lincoln was the personal lawyer first of the two guys who ran the import distribution business. That's right. Lincoln sets Nintendo of America up with a great antitrust lawyer to fight off MCA, which is a crazy decision. They should have just settled with MCA.…
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