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Hyatt says he's not out for great wealth, only recognition and enough royalties to fund future experimentation. That attitude is admirable -- and wise. If Hyatt pushes for too much money, he will surely face lengthy and costly litigation from scores of computer companies that will try to overturn his "single chip" patent or at least narrow its scope. In all likelihood, he will face protracted courtroom battles anyway. One argument likely to be used against Hyatt is that he never translated his invention into working products. Another line of attack is the principle in patent law of "prior...
Their optimism is misplaced, but even if they are right, a political time + bomb is ticking. If a Justice Souter votes to weaken or overturn Roe v. Wade before Bush faces re-election in 1992, the President will be castigated for having smuggled an abortion foe onto the court without a fair fight. Few will believe that Bush didn't know all along that Souter would affirm the Republican Party's call to gut the landmark abortion-rights decision...
Would such a stance wash? Perhaps, but "the stakes are much higher this time," says Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican whose opposition doomed Bork's 1987 court nomination. "Bork's vote to overturn Roe would not have made the difference. Souter's would...
With the high court poised to tilt decisively to the right on several inflammatory issues, a nominee publicly committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion, would provoke an outcry from the liberal forces that derailed Robert Bork's nomination in 1987. But if the President picked a Justice less inclined to overturn Roe, right-to- life activists and conservative Republicans already angered by Bush's retraction of his "no new taxes" pledge would be enraged. Facing these polarized options, the President deftly reduced the risk by selecting a Stealth candidate. Federal Appeals...
...other end of the political spectrum, alarms sounded. Women's organizations promised to battle any nominee likely to provide the key vote that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion. Referring to the political onslaught by civil rights groups and liberal forces that derailed Ronald Reagan's effort to elevate Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, Democratic consultant Roger Craver predicted that "the Bork nomination will seem mild compared with the political mobilization and pressure that will be brought upon the Senate over this nomination...