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George Baldwin Selden (September 14, 1846 – January 17, 1922) was an American patent lawyer and inventor from New York who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895. [1] [2] [3] Early life and career.
American inventor George Selden is frequently cited as an early example of a patent troll. From 1903 to 1911, Selden, who never built a car, used his patent on the automobile to collect royalties from other automobile companies.
George Selden's dubious claim that he invented the automobile cast a shadow on the early auto manufacturing industry. His claim rested on a patent application for a "road-engine" that he had filed in 1879.
May 8, 2024 · When patent lawyer George B. Selden first filed with the US Patent Office for an internal combustion engine on May 8, 1879, it included the application of the device on a four wheel vehicle. Selden named it the Road Engine.
The Selden Patent Lawsuit Collection contains documents, correspondence, and financial reports relating to George B. Selden's patent for road vehicles and the Electric Vehicle Company v. Ford lawsuit.
Nov 5, 2019 · George B Selden, a patent lawyer and inventor from Rochester, NY, was granted a US patent (No. 549,160) in late 1895 for an “improved road engine” powered by a “liquid-hydrocarbon engine of the compression type.”
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George Selden conceived -- but didn't build -- a gasoline-powered self-propelled vehicle in 1877. Selden, a patent attorney, shrewdly waited until 1895 to receive a patent on the idea -- long enough for the automobile industry to emerge and his patent to become valuable.
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