Wartime aircraft design brought legal and commercial consequences after the armistice. The Air Ministry inherited the aircraft and their operating costs, while the associated patents remained outside its control. Linton Hope retained the relevant rights, so Supermarine had to buy them before developing the Supermarine Channel. The episode connects institutional reorganization with intellectual property and private aircraft manufacture.
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From Admiralty design to the Supermarine Channel
Postwar patent ownership shaped Supermarine's purchase of the A.D. design and its development into the Supermarine Channel.