Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

Edwin H. S. Apart from the dispute Gould had realized his hope to "be around" when the Brewster's angle window patent expired in May 2005.

He also fought with laser manufacturers in court battles to enforce the patents he subsequently did obtain. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies.