There is a sad post at TIME magazine ripping the Wright Brothers as the pioneering patent trolls. Link: http://time.com/4143574/wright-brothers-patent-trolling/There are at least two things wrong with the article. NOT TROLLS. The Wrights were not trolls (or NPEs) by today's definitions.They invented a method of three-dimensional flight control that no one, for centuries, had envisioned. They made product.Whatever they were, not pioneer trolls. The case of George Selden preceded the Wright litigation. Selden had an idea for an automobile, which he did not embody at the time of his application, and for which he did not try to sell product. Henry Ford was a "victim" of the Selden patent, and initially not favorably disposed to the Wrights, but Ford changed his mind about the Wrights.
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