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Old 20th Jun 2015, 07:44
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Haraka
 
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Joy ride,
IIRC did not proper patent searches regarding one of more of the Wrights "new and useful improvements" reveal that they infringed patents previously lodged by others in Europe ?
I am thinking in particular of wing warping/ aileron devices designed and constructed (going back to around 1860 or so).

Aileron of course being a word of French origin......
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