New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-03
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ELECTRIC LIGHT PATENTS
SUITS BEGUN BY THE EDISON COMPANY.

MR.. EDISON TO PUSH HIS CLAIM TO BEING THE IN.
vFNToR OF INCANDEsCENT LIGHTING
Suits were begun yesterday in the United
States Circuit Coart by the Edison Electric Lght CON-
pany against several companies which manufacture
candescent electric lamps and against tia users Of
lamps made by these companies. The starting
OF these suits is said TO be the beginning OF yigor
GUS effort the part of the owners OF the Edison
patents to prevent the manufacture and OF any in
candescent electric lights except permitted by tho
Edison Company. large bundle o.; printed pamphlets
forming the complaints, taken to the clerks Office
of the Circuit Court by John c. Tomlnson. the solicitor
for the company There several complaints against
each OF the defendants. The alleged infrngers against
whom suits were begun, are the United States Electric
Lighting Company the United States Illuminating Com.
pany, the Consolidated Electric Light Company. and the
Swan Incandescent Electric Light Company. Tha
Remington Electric Light Company and the Schuyler
Electric Light Company also said DO among the
companies against which actions to be begun
Among large number OF persons and firms using tho
lamps provided by these companies the Union Club
the National Park Bank, the United Bank Build
ing, the Mortimer estate, W. H. Jackson
& Co.. John A. Duff at the Standard Theatre
the Providence and stonngton Steamboat Company
running the steamers Rhode Island and Massachusetts
NJ Costello, OF No 929 Broadway. and Van Deryeer &
Holmes of No. 81 veseyst. Suits begun against
these firms and corporations the ground that they
are of infrIngements on the Edison patent.
The Edison Company asserts that patents cover the
ncandescent lamp the methods Of manufacturing the
lamps and ampsockets, fixtures for carrying lamps
sockets construction OF dynamos, etc. The OF
invested capital that will be affected by these suits Is
estimated at $15OO000o Senator william NJ Evarts Is
the eadng counsel for the Edison Company
The delay In beginning these suits was caused accord
ing to atements OF officers Of the plaintiff company
by the fact that Mr. Edison was engaged for over six
years in perfecting the part of his system
10 lklas No puth In
ness Edward H. johnson. presiden, OF the
Edison Company for Isolated Lighting, sad
in relation to the suits: Since September 1873. Mr.
Edison has had granted to HIM about three hundred
patents on lighting of which twenty
fundamental ana the maintenance OF MS right 10
which will efecualy shat out all practcalriYas all over
the world It is time that his rights asserted.
When the object OF his experiments was made known.
the old scientific world said he was pursuing an gHi
fatuus and derided him When he attained his object
they said could do 1t economically enough TO be
commercially practical aud when he did that, onelaf
of the sceute world steal the honor and profit
OF his discovery When they could no longer
book me Engineer said trubfully AS soon as
stated that Mr. Edison had achieved wonderful sue
the Patent Office was Deseged by crowds OF nyen-
tors each anxious II possible TO patent means OF pro-
ducing light by electricity Now. we are going to put
every tub the collection squGrely upon It's own lnd
yidual bottomif 1t has any When we do that II Will lie
found there is only bottom for all OF them and
il covered completely by Edisons twenty fundamental
patents. and belongs TO him only"
Mr. TOmlinson, the companys solicitor, sad that al
ditionaI suits would be brought against users OF inc
alleged nfrngements. -. -. -, -,
Thomas a. L
the discOverer OF the possibility OF certain amount Oh
Illumination from incaniescent conductor OF tho
electric current, but DO clan-and can make good my
caim-to b. the inventor Of the only means Tor making
the incadescent light practical Before ne, everybody
who had expermented that direction, eDdeayOrci 10
employ conductors of low resistance took exactly the
opposite course, working with conductors Of high
resistance When | demonstrated that Was
the right way, they all suddenly discovered
that that was just what they had been doing all along
There Is no question In my mind about the courts sus
tanning the validity of twenty fundamental patents.
beyond which anybody Is welcome 10 every thing they
can find In tile way of details OF application, that have
NOT already protected by the remaining 29I subsidiary
patents The nfringers do not affect my station sys-
iem for 10 Is big thing for them to handle, and
too well secured IN very many ways, but theJ nave
thought that they could with impmity Interfere with
my control the nrd OF isolated electric light plants
they Will nd that they have been mistaken There arc
now In use IN this country over 100000 of my lamps,
all giving perfect satisfaction In every way, 20 tDal io
pie can have doubt about what my lisht VIII 90
A. Woody who tue incandescent electric light VIII
be In taking nne bur very unsafe-nO less In legal
than In other ways-n using mfrlngement>.'
When asked whether the disbelief OF scientific men IN
the possibility OF his success had ever discouraged him.
Mr. Edison said Only one night. There was an even
ing that quit work just disbearteped and feeling about
as badly as a cOud but the next morning grtted
my tee "a and work again more deterhned than
ever TO prove that was right After that think l
have be grateful to my detractors ana assal
ants for they only stimulated me TO greater Efforts