{"id":21492,"date":"2022-12-08T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/colt-vs-collier-patents-lawsuits-and-lawyers-oh-my\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:00:05","slug":"colt-vs-collier-patents-lawsuits-and-lawyers-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/colt-vs-collier-patents-lawsuits-and-lawyers-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt vs Collier: Patents Lawsuits and Lawyers Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ZmMjZ_LTUM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cClockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler&#8221; is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/clockwork-basilisk?ref=e45vl1<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/clockwork-basilisk?ref=e45vl1<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Most of the historical recognition of Elisha Collier comes from the 1851 and 1852 patent infringement lawsuits Colt files against Wesson &#038; Leavitt and other revolver manufacturers. Colt was claiming these other guns in fringed on his patent, and the defense argued that Colt&#8217;s patent was invalid because what he claimed had already been invented by others. Collier took the stand as a witness, and today Professor Ben Nicholson and I are discussing what happened in the trials and why. Was Colt&#8217;s patent actually invalid? And did he know it when he filed that patent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cClockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler&#8221; is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/clockwork-basilisk?ref=e45vl1Most of the historical recognition of Elisha Collier comes from the 1851 and 1852 patent infringement lawsuits Colt files against Wesson &#038; Leavitt and other revolver manufacturers. Colt was claiming these other guns in fringed on&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/colt-vs-collier-patents-lawsuits-and-lawyers-oh-my\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colt vs Collier: Patents Lawsuits and Lawyers Oh My!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}