Fish & Richardson is set to donate $50,000 to civil legal aid organizations across the country—representing $140 per attorney—to honor and celebrate the legacy of Frederick Fish, the firm’s founder who was admitted to the bar 140 years ago in May 1878.

Frederick Fish was one of the most well-known patent attorneys in history, said the firm in a press release, he represented the world’s greatest innovators, including Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers.