Word: patent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lose a Fortune. Senefelder gave up playwriting to devote himself to his invention. The King of Bavaria gave him a patent, but Senefelder decided to go after greater profits in London. There, unhappily, he tried for a ?3.000 prize donated by George III for a design for a dirigible. He failed to win the prize, sold his lithography patent for a pittance, and left for Vienna. He promptly ran afoul of the Viennese authorities by boasting that he had discovered a way of lithographing bank notes. He went home to Munich only to find that his brothers, to whom...
...course it won't. But if it does, what will we all need? Shelter, that's what. Shelter for ourselves, shelter for our possessions, shelter for our loved ones. And I just happen to have here with me contracts for the latest thing in shelters--Fox Holes, Patent Applied For. My own invention with a lifetime guarantee, easy credit, and plenty of closet space. Also: optional patio, ping pong table, garbage dispose...
...success. For the past three decades, the nine-count indictment said, 3M has systematically violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by attempting to monopolize markets in sealing and masking tapes, magnetic tape and aluminum lithograph plates. Among the charges: > That in exchange for licenses to produce 3M-patented products, 3M demanded of competitors the right to fix prices and production and dictate markets. > That to supplement the patent-licensing tactic, 3M banded together with existing competitors to amass new patents in order to choke off new competition. >That 3M was in the habit of bringing, or threatening to bring, patent-infringement...
...Women, by Erskine Caldwell. A collection of the best short stories of an author whose touch with humor and horror is superb, and who deserves better than his reputation as a drugstore patent-fiction merchant...
...Women, by Erskine Caldwell. A collection of the best short stories of an author whose touch with humor and horror is superb, and who deserves better than his reputation as a drugstore patent-fiction merchant...