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Article: Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century and the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution.(Book Review)
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- Federal Communications Law Journal
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- March 1, 2005
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Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century & the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution, Gavin Weightman, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2003, 312 pages.
"For all I know the basic assumption of our patent law may be false, and inventors and their financial backers do not need the incentive of a limited monopoly to stimulate invention." (1)
These sentiments concerning U.S. patent law were set out in 1943 by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter in his dissent to the majority's decision invalidating certain Marconi patents during a consequential patent dispute between the Marconi Corporation and the ...