Although Edwardes was not the true inventor of musical comedy, he was the first to elevate these works to international popularity.

The court maintained that authorship does not require the applicant be the first and true inventor of the mark.

She also campaigned for justice to be given to Antonio Meucci as the true inventor of the telephone.

When the ships needed repair, the resourceful Tomariians would bring the true inventors of their machines to maintain them.

Projector is a 19th-century term in United States patent law meaning the original true inventor.

The contest was now between the high-minded few, led by Roosevelt, and Hearst, the true inventor of the modern world.

But the United States is different in that it uses the first-to-invent system, giving priority to the true inventor.

Luther acknowledged Knight as the true inventor, but declared that he had rights to make and sell the bag.

He was named by his brother as the true inventor of the term robot.

In 1870, however, the judge ruled that it was in fact Parkes who was the true inventor due to his original experiments.