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In the summer of 1984 Levinson left MLAS and founded another company to produce audio equipment, Cello Ltd. Levinson became president and one of the three directors of Cello. MLAS launched a lawsuit attempting to prevent
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However, by 1980 MLAS was in financial trouble. Levinson then asked
Sanford Berlin, a retired executive in the audio industry, to invest in MLAS and to aid in the management of the company. Berlin personally invested $ 480,000 in the company and persuaded several others to invest an additional $
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Levinson ran his second company, Cello Ltd., from 1984 to 1998. With Cello, Levinson created high-priced models such as the Audio
Palette. In 1999, Levinson founded Red Rose Music, an audio company with its own New York retail store on
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on an audio product. For this reason, since several years before the lawsuit, "Mark
Levinson" branded audio products have had no relationship to the brand's founder; the "Mark Levinson" brand name has been and continues to be an
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wrote a 25-page decision that outlined the rights of entrepreneurs who use their own name as the name of a company. Levinson himself has continued to work in the industry, creating several new companies.
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