Word: cuno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1941, the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step along this line in its famed "flash of genius" decision involving the Cuno Engineering Corp. But Justice Arnold had taken a big leap further, to establish an outpost on the far left. Because modern corporate research is based, not on the flash of genius, but on the work of groups painfully sifting through thousands of costly experiments, the new ruling, unless reversed, may make many a corporate discovery unpatentable. Of this possibility, Manhattan's conservative Journal of Commerce took a Stygian view, saying: "The Arnold dictum . . . could spell...