Among the patent conflicts, one of the great inventions of humanity has a very peculiar history and made us recognize Alejandro Graham Bell for decades as the inventor of the telephone, however, not if he was its owner, since he bought the rights for its production. and sale, the story is roughly like this: Meucci creates an electric shock by applying reed to the lips of sick people, he receives the shock and he perceives sound. Line utensils with a cardboard cone to prevent discharge, isolating the electric current. Speak freely within the cone. A cone in Meucci’s mouth and another in Meucci’s ear. Articulated sound is perceived. He had obtained the transmission of the human word by means of a conductive thread connected with various batteries to produce electricity, which he immediately gave the name “talking telegraph.” This was near the end of 1849-1850, reserving it for my arrival in NYC, as I was due to leave Havana between 1850-51. This mechanism was primitive and crude, but it was the idea of the telephone. He arrived in NYC in 1850 and remained there until the end of his life. There he built a more refined device in 1854, a telephone to connect his office with the bedroom of his wife, who suffered from rheumatism. He wanted to patent his “talking telegraph,” but since he did not have the money to do so, he presented it to Western Union (founded in 1851), although then under the name of the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, which did not pay attention to it, nor did it. He did not ask for the patent nor did he return his materials, which passed to Alexander Graham BELL. In 1854 MEUCCI installed a telephone in his room and that same year, Charles BOURSEUL (1829-1912), predicted that the human voice would be transmitted through electromagnetic procedures. BOURSEUL devised a device like that of wire telegraphy: opening and closing a circuit, a digital procedure, using continuous signals. In 1861 Philipp REIS (1834-1874) built a telephone in Germany according to BOURSEUL’s guidelines, with which he could transmit only tones, speech; not sentences. Finally, the United States Congress in 2002 recognized MEUCCI as the inventor of the telephone and not BELL.