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...good thing, though there is hardly any agreement on how to go about limiting patents. Doing so by introducing a new classification, the machines-or-transformations test, is a bad thing, says John F. Duffy, a professor at the George Washington Law School and co-author of a brief on behalf of several technology companies. (See the best social-networking applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Court: When Do Ideas Deserve Patents? | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...Read a brief history of black boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reconsidering the Miracle on the Hudson | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...news conference on Oct. 28. Not surprisingly, the Catholic Church, the country's largest religious denomination, welcomes the government's move. "Those of us who respect human life can't approve or encourage assisted suicide," Monsignor Kurt Koch, president of Swiss Bishops Conference, said in a statement. (Read a brief history of assisted suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Government Tries to Stop 'Suicide Tourists' | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...network is developing a show of the Grey's Anatomy ilk, creatively called "HMS," according to a brief published in The Hollywood Reporter this week. More details after the jump...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss | Title: Hayden Panettiere coming to HMS? | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

...brief meet-and-greet will underscore a major shift in American foreign policy toward the Southeast Asian nation, renamed Myanmar by its ruling generals. For decades the U.S. has shunned contact with the Burmese military regime and in recent years has tightened financial sanctions on its leaders for their murderous treatment of their citizens. (In the most recent crackdown in 2007, security forces gunned down dozens of Buddhist monks and other peaceful protesters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Will Meet with a Leader of Burma's Junta | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

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