TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction:
The Patent Game
Chapter One:
Life Could be Better
Chapter Two:
How America’s Innovation Began—Eli Whitney
Chapter Three:
The U.S. Gets Her First Patent Office
Chapter Four:
America’s Laws Get Broken In
Chapter Five:
In Come the Models
Chapter Six:
America Gets Rubber Fever
Chapter Seven:
A New Patent Office and Patent Statute
Chapter Eight:
The Patent Office Rescues Colt and Morse
Chapter Nine:
McCormick and Goodyear Secure Their Rotunda Fame
Chapter Ten:
Singer Starts the Patent Wars
Chapter Eleven:
Colt Turns to the Courts
Chapter Twelve:
Goodyear Seeks Out Daniel Webster
Chapter Thirteen:
The Legal Elite Join the Fight: Lincoln and his Future Cabinet Take Sides on the McCormick Reaper Case
Chapter Fourteen:
Morse Encounters Salmon P. Chase
Chapter Fifteen:
The Aftermath
Chapter Sixteen:
The Old Curiosity Shop Is Mothballed
Chapter Seventeen:
The Telephone and the Automobile
Chapter Eighteen:
The Patent Office Confronts the Ether
Chapter Nineteen:
In Come the Wright Brothers
Chapter Twenty:
Where Did the Inventors Go?
Chapter Twenty-One:
The Staggering Cost of Inventing
Chapter Twenty-Two:
How Do We Fix This?
About the Author
Resources
References