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...Supreme Court ruled that a human-made microorganism qualified as patentable matter. The same year, Congress passed the Patent and Trademark Amendment Act, allowing universities to receive patents directly; to license patent rights; and to collect royalties on inventions from federally-funded research without seeking waivers from federal agencies...
...Supreme Court ruled that a human-made microorganism qualified as patentable matter. The same year, Congress passed the Patent and Trademark Amendment Act, allowing universities to receive patents directly, license patent rights and collect royalties on inventions from federally-funded research without seeking waivers from federal agencies...
WHEN HE WAS CHAIRMAN OF THE Joint Chiefs, Colin Powell was known for how carefully he prepared for battle. He would order up satellite photos, send out scouting patrols, and collect all the intelligence available before deciding where--or whether--to attack. Partly as a result, he was sometimes a reluctant warrior...
...founder of the nonprofit group Conservation Network International, many fishermen bought their registrations on the black market. By December, park officials estimated, as many as 7 million sea cucumbers had been harvested, far more than the authorized limit of 550,000. There are reports that boats coming to collect the sea cucumbers arrive with prostitutes and drugs from the mainland, and some prostitutes are said to be paid in bags of sea cucumbers, which they later trade for cash...
West said, however, that these groups can still collect their money until grants night, in early December, when this semester's allocations are announced...