{"id":131369,"date":"2025-08-20T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/20\/of-course-a-lawyer-invented-that\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:47:08","slug":"of-course-a-lawyer-invented-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/20\/of-course-a-lawyer-invented-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course A Lawyer Invented That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York Law School graduate Chester Carlson chose to focus on patent work after spending time working as a research engineer with Bell Labs. His experience in law school helped drive him to finish an invention he\u2019d been toying with for years. The resulting process would become the heart of what company?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The company Carlson joined was named Haloid, but changed its name based on combining Greek roots. Carlson reportedly hated the new name suggestion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/of-course-a-lawyer-invented-that\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Of Course A Lawyer Invented That!<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/11\/light-bulbs-1125016_1280-2-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>New York Law School graduate Chester Carlson chose to focus on patent work after spending time working as a research engineer with Bell Labs. His experience in law school helped drive him to finish an invention he\u2019d been toying with for years. The resulting process would become the heart of what company?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The company Carlson joined was named Haloid, but changed its name based on combining Greek roots. Carlson reportedly hated the new name suggestion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/of-course-a-lawyer-invented-that\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/of-course-a-lawyer-invented-that\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Law School graduate Chester Carlson chose to focus on patent work after spending time working as a research engineer with Bell Labs. His experience in law school helped drive him to finish an invention he\u2019d been toying with for years. The resulting process would become the heart of what company? Hint: The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/light-bulbs-1125016_1280-2-qfDkKH.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}