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...copyright their designs as if they were novels or plays. The measure, approved by the Senate two weeks ago and expected to be signed soon by President Reagan, is meant to safeguard the years of research and the tens of millions of dollars that it takes to create a chip that can pack several hundred thousand electronic circuits onto a silicon sliver smaller than a fingernail. One target of the legislation: the Japanese, who have become the world's No. 2 chipmakers after the U.S., partly by duplicating American designs...
Presiding over all this is a columnist named Bailey, a highly sexed free spirit with a loud checkered sports jacket, a long green scarf and a chip on his shoulder as big as the state capitol. The plot can be described as what happens when this immovable object meets guards with billy clubs, gypsies with evil powers, women with irresistible charms and important men of crushing influence...
Procter & Gamble is jealously proud of its Duncan Hines brand of homemade-style chocolate chip cookies. To guard the secret of its crispy-outside, chewy-inside baking technique, P & G patented it last June and then sued three rival food giants. The suits charged that the competitors have been using P & G's patented process to make "infringing cookies," and had spied at a sales presentation and at cookie plants, once even flying a plane over a facility under construction...
...Trilogy Ltd. Founded in 1980 by Gene Amdahl, a former IBM engineer, it was to have been a bravura business encore by the man who created Amdahl Corp., a successful maker of big mainframe computers. Amdahl audaciously planned to build a new supercomputer based on a revolutionary semiconductor chip that would be far faster than conventional ones. But, concedes Trilogy President Frederick White, "it was just too much to bite off." The company abandoned plans for both its superchip and its supercomputer earlier this year, and it lost $73.7 million in 1984's first half. Trilogy now contents itself...
Says Economist Robert Eggert, who compiles 46 forecasts in his Blue Chip Economic Indicators: "The model that would probably work best would be a combination of supplyside, Keynesian and monetarist views. But it exists only in the forecasters' heads...