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re-fought; and in the end, of course, the Government officials learned heel-taps found in the glasses at the end of the frolic." capital totalled more than $500,000,000 were organized to break it down; organized business. Washington. It fought out five hundred and eighty-seven other lawsuits suits, IT NEVER LOST A CASE. less upon the monopoly of patents than upon the building up of a well and from first to last the success of the telephone was based much The case was allowed to die a natural death, and was informally dropped ended. They next planned to get through politics what they could not get of the Bell patents. It was a bold and desperate move, and enabled the of various natures; and with the exception of two trivial contract through law; they induced the Government to bring suit for the annulment national interest, and five that were carried to the Supreme Court in Fortunately for Bell and the men who upheld him, they were defended by in 1896. under fire, and never at any time secure. Stock companies whose paper whole dispute was re-opened, from Gray to Drawbaugh. Every battle was Its experience is an unanswerable indictment of our system of protecting promoters of paper companies to sell stock for several years longer. The Office itself, in 1884, made an eighteen-months' investigation of all telephone patents, and reported: "It is to Bell that the world owes the inventors. No inventor had ever a clearer title than Bell. The Patent possession of the speaking telephone." Yet his patent was continuously that they were being used to pull telephone chestnuts out of the fire. But even after this defeat for the claimants, the frolic was not wholly In all, the Bell Company fought out thirteen lawsuits that were of

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