By 1881 he was superintendent of the company's incandescent lamp department, supervising forty men.After a challenging stint in finding new employment amid post-Reconstruction racial tensions, Latimer was later hired by Thomas Edison's "Edison Company," which later became General Electric, where Latimer became a member of the legal department and interacted on a personal level with Thomas Edison, himself, evidencing that Latimer was well-regarded and generally… [read post]

  That disparity between the solutions disclosed versus the solutions claimed is why I viewed this case as being nearly identical to the over-reaching patentees in The Incandescent Lamp case, 159 U.S. 465 (1895). [read post]