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Title: Alles Gordon Papers
Dates: 1927-1974
Collection Number: 10095-MS
Creator/Collector:
California Institute of Technology
Extent: 6.5 linear feet.
Repository:
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, California 91125
Abstract: The papers relate mostly to a long-standing patent dispute between Gordon Alles, George Piness, and Smith, Kline and French
Laboratories over the manufacturing rights to medical agents, including benzedrine salts and phenyl-isopropylamine salts.
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research. Researchers must apply in writing for access.
Copyright may not have been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on
behalf of the California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Alles Gordon Papers. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection is partially processed.
Series 1, Patents and litigation, includes documentation on Alles’ patents, products and publications and the lawsuit between
him and the SKF Laboratories
Series 2, Miscellaneous, includes documentation on the dispute Alles had with Piness and their following agreements and miscellaneous
business correspondence.2
Chemistry
Pharmacology