Westfield / Palo Alto / New York / Ardmore / Melville / /
Company
Control Data Corp. / Patlex / Panelrama Corp. / Lerner / Refa Technology Development Corp. / Chrysler / General Photonics / Technical Research Group Inc. / AutoFInance Group Inc. / PennWell Publishing Co. / Refac Technology Developmen Corp. / Optelecom / Apollo Lasers / Excel / Bell Telephone Laboratories / Eastman Kodak / Control Laser Corp. / National Research Group / /
Columbia University / Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute / /
IndustryTerm
retail / gas-discharge lasers / early maker / laser technology / laser applications / law / /
Organization
DC's US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals / Columbia University / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / Polytechnic Institute / Patent Office / US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals / /
Person
Arthur L. Schawlow / Bill Bushor / Eugene Lang / Charles H. Townes / Gordon Gould / Richard Samuel / Cooper LaserSonics / Jeff Hecht Contributing / /
Position
years lawyer / federal judge / years earlier professor / Editor / leader / professor / /
REFLECTIONS Winning the laser-patent war [Laser Focus World, December 1994, pp[removed]Jeff Hecht Contributing Editor "As we see it, the question posed by [Business Week and Electronics] is this: