Mark A. Lemley

Stanford law professor. His "The Myth of the Sole Inventor" (Michigan Law Review 110, 2012) is the vault's strongest external, Tier-1, peer-reviewed- venue anchor for the multiple-discovery / myth-correction cluster — a documented case, from patent-law scholarship rather than AI or engineering history, that the canonical lone-genius invention story (Edison, Bell, the Wright brothers) is largely false, with near-simultaneous independent invention as the norm.

References

• claim-lemley-2012-myth-of-sole-inventor
• moc-attribution-and-origin-myths
• Captures: 2026-07-18-does-the-deep-lineage-myth-displacing-contingent-truth