Ilfocolor from the 1980s till the early 2000s was rebadged film.
IIRC it was Ilfocolor 400 by Konica, Ilfocolor 100HR by Agfa and Ilfocolor 100 Plus byFereania. (of course I stand to be corrected as the memory is what it used to be).
Yes it would have been easier to go the Agfa process way, with both negative and transparency film but I think the biggest drawback was that the Agfa way was not that popular in the USA, probably the largest and most lucrative single market at that time.
From my personal point of view.
It is the biggest sad story in the history of the photography industry.
I have an ideological interpretation of the topic. I hope he is accepted ..
It is a story that demonstrates how the British citizen (the British mentality) - (the British character) - (the British decision-maker) has come to accept that the empire relinquishes the position of primacy in the cosmic civilization and accepts the second or third position in the global arrangement after the empire was not absent from it the sun.
The UK also abandoned the car industry in one way or another and became a car importer after owning a British car was essential to every British citizen's mind.
On the other hand, we find that the United States had a law several years ago that includes promotional packages for the American citizen who buys the American car (these packages were applied a few years ago).
The story is not a matter of patents or the like. No, the story is a matter of sovereign decision-making from the British decision-maker.
- Just as it happened in the AGFA story years later, she was not obliged to do what she did and could go through the same path Fuji took and succeeded later on, and grabbed the stick in the middle. But the issue involved financial interests, commissions, and perhaps bribes from the bottom of the table.
Unfair things have definitely happened ... and history will one day expose those things. It is only a matter of time.