EDISON ON THE WARPATH -- A ripple of excitement was caused yesterday, says the New York Herald of May 3rd [1885] among people interested in electric lighting by the news that suits had been begun in the United States Circuit Court, in this city, by the Edison Electric Light Company against various alleged infringers of Edison's patents for incandescent electric lighting, and also against a number of representative users of the alleged infringements. Among the infringers are the United States Electric Lighting Company, the United States Illuminating Company, the Consolidated Electric Light Company, the Swan Incandescent Electric Light Company, the Remington Electric Light Company and the Schuyler Electric Light Company. Mr. Edison, in his complaint, claims that he is the inventor of the devices for incandescent electric lighting. To a reporter of the Herald the president and secretary of the United States Electric Lighting Company said that they had heard, incidentally, that papers in Mr. Edison's suit had been served upon the company's counsel. They did know, however, that the United States Electric Lighting Company began several suits, in the United States Circuit Court, in this city, against the Edison companies, for infringement of patents of Edward Weston, Moses G. Farmer and Hiram S. Maxim, on dynamo-electric machines, regulators, incandescent lamps and safety devices. Mr. Curtis, the secretary, further said that the suits were part of a long continued patent litigation instituted by Mr. Edison some years ago. The public would not sustain any inconvenience during the progress of these suits, for it only concerned certain apparatus. The question which the Court would finally determine was, who had the rights in the patents and who should pay the royalties. [Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, Volume 16, May 23, 1885]

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