Why were patents important to the development of the US radio industry??

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER:
Patents provided the legal tools that inventors used to claim the rights to their devices. The competition between inventors to create and patent radio transmission and reception technologies helped the industry move forward quickly in the 1890s-1910s and prevented foreign ownership of communications technology in the U.S.

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