User:Meyer/Research

Here are working papers and presentations using this database:

• The great aviation patent spike of 1910 - latest version, March 4, 2021
• Patent classifications for aeronautics and aviation, 1880-1918 - slides from April 20, 2021; short paper, Feb 22, 2021

Aero patentees and their strategies

• might be an employee of an interested firm already. common?
• Which tech focus? lta vs fixed wing centrally
• After filing a patent, should file it in other countries? if so which?
• license it?
• join a firm?
• start a firm?
• could develop relationships with: patent agent, diagram drafter, patent office, coauthors or codevelopers
• could move to a location where the industry or the science is building up ; e.g. silicon valley
• Wright strat decisions as key example -- maybe end with that -- how they acted when believing they held the key patent
• clear ordering of where they'd file patents -- many 2ndaries were filed in GB and FR
• note addenda - extensions - additions
• discovery: Russian patents; maybe show the Wright ones

firm strategies

• fund r&d?
• license patent rights?
• hire engineers?
• company shapes and sizes: Ateliers, Compagnie, Societe ; Gmbh ; Ltd ; Company -- is there a normal growth path, and does that inform us about inventor strategies?
• update the chart of assignment or company involvement
• note delays when filing in a foreign belligerent ; effects of occupied nations

Examples

• Georges Holt Thomas - attached to firms, always collaborative -- he's managing director of a company but looks like just a guy on the patentsv- modern corporate manager - he had modern corporate titles - he collaborates with the great Geoffrey de Havilland (did his firm exist yet? or was it a spinoff) - he's maybe the most corporate of the patentees -- that form is most common late in the war
• Hiscox collaborates with GHThomas and others too
• when did "aero engineer" appear?
• spinoffs, mergers, acqs
• use de Havilland as an example
• Vickers example?
• Westinghouse complex
• Josef Simkó, Edmund Roheim, Viktor Tarczal