特斯拉与爱迪生的电流大战

• 作 者: 黄福宁
• 机 构: 中国银行业监督管理委员会,
• 出 处: 法律与生活
• 发表日期: 2016年20期
• 关键词: 特斯拉 爱迪生 电流 专利制度 专利诉讼 专利侵权 制度发展 白炽灯 真空 行为 系统 金钱 耗费 官司 分割 发明 电灯 灯丝 灯泡 保护

专利制度的目的是要在天才之火上加利益之油,围绕利益展开的纷争是专利制度发展过程中不可分割的一部分。爱迪生的许多专利深深地改变了人们的生活。但是,爱迪生辞世时并不富有,据说主要原因是他的专利官司打得太多,耗费了他大量的时间和金钱。爱迪生在发明了白炽灯后,便饱受专利侵权之苦。为了反击这种行为,在19世纪的最后十多年,爱迪生一共提出了200多起旨在保护自己电灯系统的专利诉讼。其中,最重要的是有关真空灯泡中使用灯丝的专利争议。

The purpose of the patent system is to add the oil of benefit to the genius fire. The dispute over the interest is an integral part of the development of the patent system. Many of Edison’s patents have profoundly changed people’s lives. However, Edison was not rich at the time of his death, and the main reason was said to be that his patent lawsuit played too much and cost him a lot of time and money. After Edison invented the incandescent lamp, he suffered from patent infringement. In response to this move, Edison raised a total of more than 200 patent suits over the last decade of the nineteenth century that were designed to protect their lamp systems. Among them, the most important is the patent dispute concerning the use of filaments in vacuum bulbs.