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Editorial comment on the acceptance by the British
Wright Company of a settlement of £15,000 from
British War Office in lieu of the original £25,000
asked for the use of the Wright patent.
Wright Company Starts New Infringement Suit.
Aeronautics, Oct. 15, 1914, vol. 15, p. 100.
Suit filed November 15, 1914, against the Curtiss
Aeroplane Company.
The Wright Patent and the British Government. Flight,
Oct. 16, 1914, vol. 6, p. 1032.
Announces settlement price of £15,000 by British
government for the use of Wright patents.
G[rey], C. G. On the Wright Patents and the Aircraft
Industry. An Official Pronouncement. Aeroplane Oct. 4,
1916, vol. 10, pp. 581—583.
Includes letter from Griffith Brewer setting forth
official policy of the British Wright Company.
The Wright Patents. Flight, Oct. 12, 1916, vol. 8, p. 872.
Martin, James V. Clear Statement of the Bearing of the
Martin Aerodynamic Stabilizer on the Wright Patent
Infringement Controversy. Flying, Feb. 1917, vol. 6, p. 19.
Author claims that his principle of lateral stability
is unlike that of the Wrights.
The Wright Patent in Congress. Aerial Age Weekly, Feb.
26, 1917, vol. 4, pp. 689—691.
Reprinted from Congressional Record, Feb. 6,
1917, vol. 54, pp. 2701—2703.
Discussion of Government purchasing of aircraft
and possible purchase by the Government of the basic
Wright patent.
Validity of Wright Patents Again Attacked. Aircraft,
Nov. 1917, vol. 7, pp. 152—153.
Announcement of the filing of a suit September 24
by the heirs of John J. Montgomery against the
Wright—Martin Aircraft Corporation.
Wright Patent Expires This Year. Aerial Age, Mar. 1923,
vol. 16, pp. 139, 142.
States Wright patent will expire May 22, 1923.
Wright Patent Expiration and the Manufacturers
Association. Aerial Age, Apr. 1923, vol. 16, p. 188.
Further discussion of implications of the expiration
of the Wright patent.
Specifications of the Wright Patents, Filed March 23rd,
1903. Aero Digest, Dec. 1928, vol. 13, pp. 1111—1112,
+illus.
Wright Companies and Schools
Watter, Michael. Modern Significance of the Wright
Patent. Aero Digest, Dec. 1928, vol. 13, pp. 1110—1111,
1284.
Black, Archibald. The Patent Suits. In his The Story of
Flying, New York: McGraw—Hill Book Company, Inc.,
1940, pp. 92—98.
Published also in revised 1943 edition.
Brief r sum of the Wright patent suits.
Kelly, Fred C. Patent Suits. In his The Wright Brothers,
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1943, pp.
287—299.
Summary of principal patent suits and issues.
Worrel, Rodney K. Wright Brothers Pioneer Patent.
American Bar Association Journal, Oct. 1979, vol. 65,
pp. 1512—1518.
The author discusses how much easier it was to
invent a flying machine than to patent it. After three
years of numerous attempts and rejections, the Wright
brothers were finally issued a patent on May 22, 1906.
It wasn t until 1908 that they finally had public recognition.
Trial of the Wright Brothers for Procurement Fraud:
Tuesday, August 8, 1995, Chicago, Illinois. Chicago,
Illinios: American Bar Association, 1995, 1 volume (various
pagings).
A mock trial; a Presidential Showcase Program
presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the
American Bar Association, Section of Public Contract
Law, based on the historic incident of the Wright
brothers agreeing to sell the U.S. government a heavier-than-air
flying machine for $25,000.
Wright Companies and Schools
Wright a fini! La Revue de l aviation, Oct. 1908, vol. 3,
no. 23, 1 p. supplement following p. 6.
Reports that Wilbur Wright has completed tests of
the Wright aeroplane and fulfilled conditions of the
contract signed with Lazare Weiller for the formation
of a French Wright company to be known as La
Compagnie G n rale de Navigation A rienne.
Wright Aeroplanes in Germany. Aeronautics, London,
June 1909, vol. 2, p. 67.
Announces formation of the Flugmaschine Wright
G. m. b.H. which acquired the Wright German patents
and the rights for manufacture of the Wright aeroplanes
in Germany as well as sales rights for Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Luxemburg, and Turkey.
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