The Incandescent Lamp Patent
Argued October 29–30, 1894
Decided November 11, 1895
Full case nameConsolidated Electric Light Co. v. McKeesport Light Co.
Citations159 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
MajorityBrown, 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.

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

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