Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America v. United States

Until now law1 has united with almost universal repute2 in acknowledging Marconi, as the first to establish wireless telegraphy on a commercial basis. Before his, invention, now in. issue,3 ether-borne communication traveled some eighty miles. He lengthened the arc to 6,000. Whether or not this was “inventive” legally, it was a great and beneficial achievement.4 Today, forty years after the event, the Court’s decision reduces it to. an electrical mechanic’s application of mere skill in the art.

*65By present knowledge,: it would be no more. School boys and mechanics now could perform what Marconi…