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In January 1914, a U.S. [[United States courts of appeals|Circuit Court of Appeals]] upheld the verdict in favor of the Wrights against the Curtiss company, which continued to avoid penalties through legal tactics.
In light of these setbacks and to discredit the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss in 1914 helped the head of the Smithsonian, [[Charles Doolittle Walcott]], secretly make major modifications to a failed aerodrome built in 1903 by Professor [[Samuel Langley]]
Beginning in 2011, Russell Klingaman—a prominent Wisconsin aviation/patent attorney, aviation law journalist, and instructor in Aviation Law at [[Marquette University Law School]]<ref name="klingaman_2016_waco_museum">[http://www.wacoairmuseum.org/avls-wrights-vs-curtiss.html "Aviation Lecture Series: Wrights vs. Curtis - The Patent Wars,"] 2016, WACO Air Museum, retrieved December 4, 2017</ref><ref name="klingaman_bio_2016_06_midwest_flyer">[https://issuu.com/midwestflyer/docs/mfm_junejuly2016_web Klingaman bio note] in ''Midwest Flyer'' June–July 2016, as archived at [[issuu.com]], retrieved December 4, 2017</ref><ref name="klingaman_univ_wisconsin_alumni">[http://alumnius.net/university_of_wiscon-9690-944 "Russell Klingaman,"] ''Alumni,'' [[University of Wisconsin]], retrieved December 4, 2017</ref>—researched, prepared and delivered a series of lectures, at major aviation events and lawyers' organizations, analyzing and decrying the events and outcomes of the Wright-Curtiss lawsuit, citing numerous examples of error or misconduct by various parties to the suit, including attorneys and the judge. Klingaman found that the judge in the case allowed the Wrights' attorney to make his case in a private ("[[ex-parte]]") hearing with the judge, without the opposing side present, and discovered other misconduct which he believes led to a legally inappropriate outcome.<ref name="klingaman_2014_airventure">Klingaman, Russell, "The Aileron Patent Wars: How Attorney Misconduct and Bad Business Decisions Ruined Fortunes and Cost Lives with a Negative Impact on Allied Power in the First World War," EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, [[Oshkosh, Wisconsin]], July 2014.</ref><ref name="eaa_klingaman_lecture_item">[https://www.eaa.org/eaa/event/Wrights_v_Curtiss_Patent_Wars?id=316492F1103541E1AA632616FC6DBC4B "Wrights v Curtiss Patent Wars.mht"] itenerary, for [[AirVenture]], [[Experimental Aircraft Association]]</ref><ref name="klingaman_cv">[https://www.hinshawlaw.com/attorneys-Russell-Klingaman.html#Presentations "Russell Klingaman: Presentations"], HinshawLaw.com</ref>
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