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Here are working papers and presentations using this database:

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 -- 10-14 patents on perhaps one invention with elaborations. Tarczal has apparently 14 patents based on one kite invention.
  • How many patents now are counted as first filings?
  • a cert d'add is not a brevet in France, but internationally it's equivalent
  • Siemens-Schuckert Werke GmbH had an extensive library of patents ; Werner Siemens had made an early something - ornithopter?
  • show data on when corps gather portfolios seriously
design shift
  • the year the fixed-wing designs pass the balloons is 1904 ; By 1909 balloon designs fell from over 60% to under 20%, and fixed-wing airplane designs rose from 10% to 50%