Title: Interesting look at impact of patents
Product review: In the epilogue the author writes "At its core, the long, bitter fight between Glenn Curtis and the Wright brothers pitted the virtues of open, shared access to innovation [Curtis] against the driving economic pressure for monopoly ownersip [Wrights]." This sentence really summarizes the book. It is more about patents and legal wrangling than about aviation. But the topic of patents and how they are interpreted is important to today's world and many would argue (although the author does not get into this) that a similar battle is taking place today in the information world, in particular with Microsoft playing the part of the Wright brothers. The book is fairly short and a worthwhile read.
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