The Emergence of the Professional Patent Practitioner

摘要

Thomas Edison is a household name, the subject of countless press articles and biographies, and the object of adulation as a great American inventor, holder of 1,093 patents. Lemuel Serrell, the patent practitioner who prosecuted some of Edison's key telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and electric light patents during a ten-year period and "one of the most expert patent lawyers in the country," has little name recognition, even within the history of technology.