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The Incandescent Lamp Patent
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 29–30, 1894 Decided November 11, 1895
Full case name	Consolidated Electric Light Co. v. McKeesport Light Co.
Citations	159 U.S. 465 (more) 16 S. Ct. 75, 40 L.Ed. 221
Court membership
Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices Stephen J. Field · John M. Harlan Horace Gray · David J. Brewer Henry B. Brown · George Shiras Jr. Edward D. White
Case opinion
Majority	Brown, joined by unanimous

Consolidated Electric Light Co. v. McKeesport Light Co., 159 U.S. 465 (1895), referred to in some casebooks and legal treatises as The Incandescent Lamp Patent, was a United States Supreme Court case which grew out of a patent dispute between Thomas Edison and William E. Sawyer.

Background

Plaintiffs Consolidated Electric Light Co. (assignees of Sawyer & Man) sued defendants, McKeesport Light Co. (assignees of Thomas Edison).

References

Text of Consolidated Electric Light Co. v. McKeesport Light Co. is available from: Findlaw Justia {{SCOTUS-case-stub}} [[Category:1895 in law]] [[Category:United States patent case law]] [[Category:United States Supreme Court cases]] [[Category:Thomas Edison]]