Inventor of the wind-up radio living in poverty

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• * He (Trevor Baylis) is regarded as one of Britain’s greatest inventors after creating the wind-up radio in the 1990s.
• * Trevor Baylis says he is ‘totally broke’ and has to sell his beloved home.

• * He claims a quirk in patent law meant the business which manufactured the radio was able to tweak his design and take control of the product.
• * Now Mr Baylis, who was awarded the OBE in 1997, wants the Government to introduce stronger legal protection for inventors.
• * Mr Baylis, who was recently named among the 50 greatest inventors in British history, said: ‘If people are not going to be rewarded for their inventions, then why should they invent at all?

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