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and as the trial proceeded, he became convinced that the Bell patent was competition with Bell's. next day the white flag was hauled up, not by the little group of Bell looked to see the white flag flying over the Bell headquarters. But Company had secured two eminent lawyers and were ready to give battle. size, it claimed everything. It introduced Gray as the original inventor attorney of his day. He was versed in patent lore from Alpha to Omega; the telephone." The best policy, he suggested, was to withdraw their telephone business. The Western Union bought out several of the Bell The case began in the Autumn of 1878 and lasted for a year. Then it claims and make a settlement. This wise advice was accepted, and the the Western Union was George Gifford, who was perhaps the ablest patent A committee of three from each side was appointed, and after months of case could not be proven, and that "Bell was the original inventor of of violent competition which is remembered as the Dark Ages of the of the telephone, and ordered its lawyers to take action at once against a humble and submissive frame of mind. Every morning the Western Union As we have seen in the previous chapter, there now came a period fighters, who were huddled together in a tiny, two-room office, but by encounter began. the Bell Company for infringement of the Gray patent. This high-handed the mighty Western Union itself, which had been so arrogant when the action, it hoped, would most quickly bring the little Bell group into exchanges and opened up a lively war on the others. As befitting its no white flag appeared. On the contrary, the news came that the Bell came to a sudden and most unexpected ending. The lawyer-in-chief of valid. He notified the Western Union confidentially, of course, that its

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