Laser
Subtitle: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780684835150
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; History of science; Laser technology; Patents; Lasers; Science; United States; Science/Mathematics; Physicists; Optics; Science / General; Gould, Gordon,; 1920-; Biography; History
First sentence: "Call your first witness."
Description: "In 1957 Gordon Gould, then an obscure physicist and perennial graduate student, conceived one of the revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century - the laser. But before he could submit a patent application, a prominent professor of physics whose office was next door to Gould's filed his own laser patent claims. Gould fought to reclaim the rights to his work, beginning a battle that would last nearly thirty years.

Many millions of dollars, as well as the integrity of scientific claims, were at stake in the litigation that ensued. Laser is Gould's story - and an eye-opening look at the patent process in America, the nexus of the worlds of business and science."--BOOK JACKET.