POLAROID CORP. v. OFFERMAN

No. 70PA98.

507 S.E.2d 284 (1998)

349 N.C. 290

POLAROID CORPORATION v. Muriel K. OFFERMAN, Secretary of Revenue of the State of North Carolina.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 4, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alston & Bird, P.L.L.C. by Jasper L. Cummings, Jr., Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellee.

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., General Counsel; George W. Boylan, Special Deputy Attorney General; and Kay Linn Miller Hobart, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant-appellant.

Multistate Tax Commission by Paull Mines, General Counsel, Washington, DC, amicus curiae.


WYNN, Justice.

Plaintiff Polaroid Corporation ("Polaroid"), a Massachusetts corporation, develops, manufactures, and sells photographic equipment. As one of the world's predominant manufacturers of instant photographic equipment, Polaroid continually develops and refines methods of designing and marketing those products. Under this market-leading approach, Polaroid has obtained an extraordinary number of patents; however, it has never licensed its core technology...

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