Third party filing

This is a quite admittedly broad heading. It is prompted somewhat by the fact the applicant(s) of a patent not always being the inventor(s), as we have seen in our data. More pointedly, the phenomenon is being looked at, in a range of particular cases, in the interests of ascertaining the degree to which interest, including financial self-interest, on the part of someone other than the inventor, compels this "third party" in the furtherance of the invention's being patented. This could pan out with some indicational bearing relative to the patent's being of "high quality", as opposed to the low quality patent.

The immense bulk of third party filings may be found via the simple "Applicant is inventor? - No" designation, with many of the varied relations between companies and individual inventors already being known by us. A few odd cases, not all of which are per se corporate, have come up relative to the legal successor phenomenon.

Between George Lanzius results and those of the Lanzius Aircraft Co., we have Evelyn Eliza Fairbanks Lanzius acting as "executrix".