Rather than containing apparatus for signaling the Kaiser's forces, the box was found to contain a Smith Corona typewriter.
He was President of the Standard Typewriter Company which was renamed Corona Typewriter Company in 1914, and merged after his death to form Smith Corona.
During that period, Syracuse was home to four typewriter companies including L. C. Smith & Bros., The Monarch Typewriter Company, Remington Typewriter Company and Smith Premier Typewriter Works.
Smith later went on to found the Smith-Premier Typewriter Company, which would later become Smith-Corona Typewriter Company.
The expression may come from SCM Corp. v. Xerox Corp. patent litigation case in the 1970s, wherein SCM's central charge had been that Xerox constructed a "patent thicket" to prevent competition.
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