The legendary Mr **** !? 25 9 18
Japanese readers check out the last 4-lettered surname in this patent specification in order to learn the name of the legend we shall discuss this day...
One reason for showing off my Japanese specification for the world's lightest commercial fibrous casing is that it is closest in content to my, or our, original application that was filed in 1989. Unlike a later filing in the European Patent Office, maybe filed 1/2 dozen years later, when the other patentees sited on our original application were no longer employed by the company and when their successors were disinterested simply because they weren't invested in the momentos developments that had been necessary to turn the company's fortunes around, eg when at the start of 1990 I was given the US monthly Casing Claims to process they were runing at the rate of US $200 000 pa, and 10 years later during which I had processed them pretty much single handedly, and seen them reduced to US $ 5000, the job was taken away from me by the new ppl that had arrived later, lol. I was the only person interested in securing protection for an invention which had predated any involvement on their parts. And it was likewise attacked in the European Patent Offices in Munich by competitors, at which I was later present to have its novelty declared inventive asecond time when their appeal failed to reverse thr decision to grant it in the first place.
Interestingly, also because the Japanese so-called "Prior Art" in an earlier Japanese specification was no longer pending after the longer period of 7 years before Examination in the Japanese Patent Office (the same prior art which had resulted in two western competitors succeeding in having our original filing disallowed in the European and Finnish Patent Offices). And when my fellow directors with the departure of the Managing Director who had brought me into the company had had to leave under suspicious circumstances, attempted to discredit these lighter weight product fibrous casings, on the basis they weren't contributing so much in terms of their profitability, it was found they were in fact most profitable after the regular products sold in the USA and Finland, i.e. the third most successful markets, way ahead of countries like Sweden, France, Spain and Germany for example, wherein much marketing effort was expended for but little financial return.
But the sobriquet "legendary" was never clear to me: was it meant as a compliment or was it more likely a term of jocular disrespect, since I was in all probability a condundrum to many of my colleagues that joined the company in my wake: a supplier Research and Development Manager from one of the two main Paper Supplier companies, who came with the highest possible recommendations, to an ailing company no-one wished to buy in the 1980's, but now in the 1990's a world leader, the second most profitable company in the Finnish Chemical Industry. A person who knew better than most, the workings of the company's competitors because these had also been his customers during the 10 years before being persuaded to join its board of management as a supplier Scientist.
That Finnish Industry is not reknown for it Management skills is not a feature that I would come to understand in a couple of weeks, in the same way as they were in no way cognisant of the way they should treat their fellow colleague, from the UK, when I say the law of the jungle was more in vogue and to the fore, as more a free for all, was holding sway.
But perhaps the reticence I exercised in being persuaded to join them: at first declining their first offer outright, and holding out for nothing less than the directorship for 4 years when only 3 had been offered, with the second highest renumeration package in the Company after the CEO and MD (though it would take me 10 to 15 years to glean the truth of this fact), was undoubtedly good for my staying power... When word got back to me that someone in the board room had complained that I had no knowledge of Swedish the guy for whom his acquisition of the company would become his best investment ever, would jump to my defence with the words: "he may not speak Swedish but he knows a good deal about the base paper used in the manufacture of the products..."
So it transpired that I had to have the support at the highest level never mind losing my title of Research and Development Director, after the intial 4 year contract expired, the guy who added it to his own business card didn't want the actual job, for he was ill-fitted to perform it, and because he already had relieved the CEO and MD's of his Marketing Directorship, on top of his own Production Directorship.
Nor did he wish to represent the company and the country in the European Union sponsored meeting of Fibrous Casing Producers, I attended for twenty years: in the fullness of time becoming its Chairperson for 5 years, and President for 2. Nor did he in 1994, six years into my service wish to head up the Company's and Country's case against the US Customs Service, at the Court of International Trade in New York, when I as Expert Witness, with our team, were successful in having our products returned to the Paper from the Plastics Chapter, of the Brussels Nomenclature for International Trade, with the return of 100 000's of Finnmarks, and 1.3 % less customs duty payable in petuity...
All in all although I didn't succeed in regaining a part of the 10% salary and loss of my company car benefit during the remaining 12 years before retirement from Oy Visko, but the first 4 years of my service were crucially important in terms of our turning the fortunes of the company around. Ppl came and ppl left at the very top, as one's own fortunes ebbed and flowed: the guy who brought me did the best job it was posible to do before the colleague who discredited me also discredited him in the eyes of the new owner who had bought out his shares of the company. But he didn't get the MDship he coveted, for instead he thought he could found a subsidiary Platics Casing Company, which according to his 2-page spread in a National Newspaper was to have become 10x bigger than our cellulose-based casing business...but in the event with the owner's son as his Marketing Director who likewise came in for much criticism: that and the fact that he had failed to take account of the competitors' Intelectual Property for many of the products he brought on line, together conspired for him to disappear before realising his predictions.
Visko didn't get to become a 1/10th the size of Plastics Casings but in 2025 production of Fibrous Cellulose Casings became 250 000 000 metres a 5 fold increase since I used to visit them as Paper Supplier in the late 1970s early 1980s: running the Central Process Computer I told them they needed and now drying the casings with purpose built drying machines from my neck of the woods in UK I had recommended, the casing production still based on the Statistical Process Control principals I introduced which at the time succeeded in reducing their weight variations by one half. And if I left aged 68 after writing the the Guide to Good Manufacturing for the Brussels EU sponsored Group under the auspices of CIPCEL and winning my last two patent disputes in the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office in Munich maybe the term "Legendary Mr **** wasn't perhaps too wide of the mark? That the company following my departure of some 20 years, latterly as a Management Consultant, lost its status for the first time as the sole supplier of 2 of the USA's biggest producers of Pepperoni Casings, an occurence which was never allowed to happen under my watch will do nothing to detract from th legacy I left behind. And if you are unable to read of these deeds elsewhere then I'll fall back on the old English adage that the proof of the pudding is in the eating: try to prove me wrong anyone who has a mind to...to make a start you can go check the name of the person in the Patent specification above, and good luck in your endeavours, lol. in the sense losing the US Hormel market couldn't have happened on my watch?
...see you still need to do some editing of these last lines
Yeah, you're quite right please forgive me but i just had to publish on the 18th inst.!!!
One reason for showing off my Japanese specification for the world's lightest commercial fibrous casing is that it is closest in content to my, or our, original application that was filed in 1989. Unlike a later filing in the European Patent Office, maybe filed 1/2 dozen years later, when the other patentees sited on our original application were no longer employed by the company and when their successors were disinterested simply because they weren't invested in the momentos developments that had been necessary to turn the company's fortunes around, eg when at the start of 1990 I was given the US monthly Casing Claims to process they were runing at the rate of US $200 000 pa, and 10 years later during which I had processed them pretty much single handedly, and seen them reduced to US $ 5000, the job was taken away from me by the new ppl that had arrived later, lol. I was the only person interested in securing protection for an invention which had predated any involvement on their parts. And it was likewise attacked in the European Patent Offices in Munich by competitors, at which I was later present to have its novelty declared inventive asecond time when their appeal failed to reverse thr decision to grant it in the first place.
Interestingly, also because the Japanese so-called "Prior Art" in an earlier Japanese specification was no longer pending after the longer period of 7 years before Examination in the Japanese Patent Office (the same prior art which had resulted in two western competitors succeeding in having our original filing disallowed in the European and Finnish Patent Offices). And when my fellow directors with the departure of the Managing Director who had brought me into the company had had to leave under suspicious circumstances, attempted to discredit these lighter weight product fibrous casings, on the basis they weren't contributing so much in terms of their profitability, it was found they were in fact most profitable after the regular products sold in the USA and Finland, i.e. the third most successful markets, way ahead of countries like Sweden, France, Spain and Germany for example, wherein much marketing effort was expended for but little financial return.
But the sobriquet "legendary" was never clear to me: was it meant as a compliment or was it more likely a term of jocular disrespect, since I was in all probability a condundrum to many of my colleagues that joined the company in my wake: a supplier Research and Development Manager from one of the two main Paper Supplier companies, who came with the highest possible recommendations, to an ailing company no-one wished to buy in the 1980's, but now in the 1990's a world leader, the second most profitable company in the Finnish Chemical Industry. A person who knew better than most, the workings of the company's competitors because these had also been his customers during the 10 years before being persuaded to join its board of management as a supplier Scientist.
That Finnish Industry is not reknown for it Management skills is not a feature that I would come to understand in a couple of weeks, in the same way as they were in no way cognisant of the way they should treat their fellow colleague, from the UK, when I say the law of the jungle was more in vogue and to the fore, as more a free for all, was holding sway.
But perhaps the reticence I exercised in being persuaded to join them: at first declining their first offer outright, and holding out for nothing less than the directorship for 4 years when only 3 had been offered, with the second highest renumeration package in the Company after the CEO and MD (though it would take me 10 to 15 years to glean the truth of this fact), was undoubtedly good for my staying power... When word got back to me that someone in the board room had complained that I had no knowledge of Swedish the guy for whom his acquisition of the company would become his best investment ever, would jump to my defence with the words: "he may not speak Swedish but he knows a good deal about the base paper used in the manufacture of the products..."
So it transpired that I had to have the support at the highest level never mind losing my title of Research and Development Director, after the intial 4 year contract expired, the guy who added it to his own business card didn't want the actual job, for he was ill-fitted to perform it, and because he already had relieved the CEO and MD's of his Marketing Directorship, on top of his own Production Directorship.
Nor did he wish to represent the company and the country in the European Union sponsored meeting of Fibrous Casing Producers, I attended for twenty years: in the fullness of time becoming its Chairperson for 5 years, and President for 2. Nor did he in 1994, six years into my service wish to head up the Company's and Country's case against the US Customs Service, at the Court of International Trade in New York, when I as Expert Witness, with our team, were successful in having our products returned to the Paper from the Plastics Chapter, of the Brussels Nomenclature for International Trade, with the return of 100 000's of Finnmarks, and 1.3 % less customs duty payable in petuity...
All in all although I didn't succeed in regaining a part of the 10% salary and loss of my company car benefit during the remaining 12 years before retirement from Oy Visko, but the first 4 years of my service were crucially important in terms of our turning the fortunes of the company around. Ppl came and ppl left at the very top, as one's own fortunes ebbed and flowed: the guy who brought me did the best job it was posible to do before the colleague who discredited me also discredited him in the eyes of the new owner who had bought out his shares of the company. But he didn't get the MDship he coveted, for instead he thought he could found a subsidiary Platics Casing Company, which according to his 2-page spread in a National Newspaper was to have become 10x bigger than our cellulose-based casing business...but in the event with the owner's son as his Marketing Director who likewise came in for much criticism: that and the fact that he had failed to take account of the competitors' Intelectual Property for many of the products he brought on line, together conspired for him to disappear before realising his predictions.
Visko didn't get to become a 1/10th the size of Plastics Casings but in 2025 production of Fibrous Cellulose Casings became 250 000 000 metres a 5 fold increase since I used to visit them as Paper Supplier in the late 1970s early 1980s: running the Central Process Computer I told them they needed and now drying the casings with purpose built drying machines from my neck of the woods in UK I had recommended, the casing production still based on the Statistical Process Control principals I introduced which at the time succeeded in reducing their weight variations by one half. And if I left aged 68 after writing the the Guide to Good Manufacturing for the Brussels EU sponsored Group under the auspices of CIPCEL and winning my last two patent disputes in the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office in Munich maybe the term "Legendary Mr **** wasn't perhaps too wide of the mark? That the company following my departure of some 20 years, latterly as a Management Consultant, lost its status for the first time as the sole supplier of 2 of the USA's biggest producers of Pepperoni Casings, an occurence which was never allowed to happen under my watch will do nothing to detract from th legacy I left behind. And if you are unable to read of these deeds elsewhere then I'll fall back on the old English adage that the proof of the pudding is in the eating: try to prove me wrong anyone who has a mind to...to make a start you can go check the name of the person in the Patent specification above, and good luck in your endeavours, lol. in the sense losing the US Hormel market couldn't have happened on my watch?
...see you still need to do some editing of these last lines
Yeah, you're quite right please forgive me but i just had to publish on the 18th inst.!!!
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