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Toronto business partners Ian McDonald and Kerry Knoll and a lawyer friend, John Cocomile, had a novel idea. Patent suits are so expensive to litigate that if investors put up money to help independent inventors defend their rights, the inventors would probably be willing to share any award. The three were right on the money. The shareholders in their company, Patent Enforcement & Royalties, which trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange, are entitled to 50% of a $3 million January verdict against Land O'Lakes for infringing a New Yorker's patent of a low-fat coffee creamer. Three weeks...
...Segway vehicle is a great idea! If inventor Kamen's vision of cities free of automobile traffic comes true, won't this be a much better world? Less pollution from car emissions, fewer traffic jams. Imagine this in Bangkok! Maybe we should start thinking about providing parking lots for Segways right now. SUMMER KHOO Johor, Malaysia...
...Theodore Roosevelt." He completed his annus mirabilis by meeting Anne Morrow, whom he would marry in 1929. They would seek privacy, especially after their son was notoriously kidnapped and murdered in 1932, but both would remain lifelong celebrities--she as an author, he as a continuing aviation pioneer, an inventor who contributed to the artificial heart, an airline consultant and an advocate of sometimes controversial political views...
...Conn., is one of the innovative firms that have refined this art. Its proprietary technology--an adaptation of a decade-old technique--allows CuraGen's scientists to put human genes into yeast cells and effectively "fish" for proteins relevant to drug discovery. "We learned at the seat of the inventor of this technology," boasts technology group leader Bruce Taillon, "and showed him what would happen when CuraGen was set loose on it." The company stunned the biotech world in January, when it announced a 15-year, $1.4 billion deal with Bayer to develop drugs against obesity and diabetes. "CuraGen...
...better perks?like "borrowing" MI6's hover Porsche MARK SHUTTLEWORTH South African mogul set to be second space tourist. He'll boldly go where no man with a net worth of less than $1 billion has gone before Losers DEAN KAMEN Inventor's top-secret scooter "Ginger" elicits yawns in its debut. He plans to add a V-8 engine and gigantic fins and market it as a "Cadillac" TALIBAN British racehorse with the bad name is snubbed by gamblers. The big beard slows it down, and it needs a Kalashnikov as a starting gun MARILYN MANSON Music's favorite...