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    The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a...
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  • MPPC can refer to: Motion Picture Patents Company Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression Menlo Park Presbyterian Church Milk Sphingomyelin (1-Myristoyl...
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  • Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression (MPPC; described in RFC 2118) is a streaming data compression algorithm based on an implementation of Lempel–Ziv using...
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  • (MPPC) forced filmmakers to use their equipment and follow their rules, since they owned the patents of much of the motion picture equipment. The MPPC...
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  • business model came to an end in 1908 when the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC; commonly known as the Edison Trust) sued independent film studios on grounds...
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    AppleTalk, 0x002B for IPX, 0x003D for Multilink, 0x003F for NetBIOS, 0x00FD for MPPC and MPPE, etc. PPP is limited, and cannot contain general Layer 3 data, unlike...
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    formation of the MPPC, Thomas Edison owned most of the major patents relating to motion pictures, including that for raw film. The MPPC vigorously enforced...
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    other owners of film-related patents: the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), also known as the Motion Picture Patents Trust, or the Edison Trust. The...
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    prosecution of the MPPC and the General Film Company under the Sherman Act. On March 30, 1918, the General Film Company was sold, along with the MPPC, to the Lincoln...
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  • Menlo Church, previously Menlo Park Presbyterian Church (or MPPC), is a congregation located in the San Francisco Bay Area, California with campuses in...
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