Calix Ashton
Feb 13, 2018

A Poor History of Wright Brothers Concludes they were Patent Trolls

On Monday, February 5th, American economic organization The Mises Institute published an article online by Mises alumnus and economic historian Chris Calton titled How the Patent-Troll Wright Brothers Fought to Stifle Innovation. The article provides a historical look at patent litigation stemming from the Wright Brothers’ invention of an airplane control system to argue that the government’s grant of a patent serves to stifle innovation more than it incentivizes further innovation within an industry.

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