 Based on this decision, Edison Electric brought suits to obtain preliminary injunctions to close the productions of incandescent light bulbs of the Beacon Vacuum Pump and Electrical Company, Boston; Columbia Incandescent Lamp Company, St. Louis; and Electric Manufacturing Company, Oconto, Wisconsin.Patent attorneys Witter & Kenyon became defense counsel in all three cases.They declared Edison's patents void because it was not a novelty in 1880.