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- Title
Patent Appeal: The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the American Automotive Sector, 1903-1911.
- Authors
Smith, Angella LaNette
- Abstract
Importantly, if that company had dissolved after Henry Ford ended his employment there, all the firm's assets may have been liquidated to pay for its closing expenses.[72] Selden could not sue a company that no longer existed, nor could he sue Henry Ford or Ford Motor Company for a patent reassigned to a bankrupt firm that had dissolved its business ties. By coalescing behind the Selden automobile patent, all vehicles manufactured by Winton's firm had to be marked with signage that stated the date and patent number from the information presented on the Selden automobile patent certificate. In 1895, George Baldwin Selden patented an American automobile that utilized an updated Brayton-style engine. According to the Ford Motor Company and C. A. Duerr's response to the EVC bill of complaint with the US Circuit Court of the Southern District of New York, the original Selden automobile patent changed in many different ways as the sublicensees expanded on the design specifications of their "honest" vehicles.[52] For example, during the Selden case, the Rochester-Selden - the first vehicle based on Selden's patent specifications - was constructed by Henry R. and George B. Selden Jr.[53] Subsequent vehicles were redesigned and manufactured differently from the original Selden prototype.
- Subjects
INTELLECTUAL property; AUTOMOBILE industry; TRADE secrets; PATENT suits; PATENTS; NONPRACTICING entities (Patent law)
- Publication
Michigan Historical Review, 2023, Vol 49, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
0890-1686
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mhr.2023.a899865