Word: patent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patent will definitely mean some money for us," Tun-Hou Lee, assistant professor of virology, said last week about a new chemical which diagnoses AIDS. Eloquently dubbed GP120, the new glycoprotein was discovered in May and June of 1984 by Lee and Myron E. Essex, professor of microbiology, both faculty members at Harvard's School of Public Health...
Last week a U.S. district court in Manhattan ruled that Sumitomo violated U.S. patent law by copying too closely the designs of products made by Corning Glass Works, the company that developed the first commercially useful communications fibers in 1970. The court enjoined Sumitomo from making and selling in the U.S. any more fibers based on Corning's designs, and will award financial damages to the American company within a few weeks. Sumitomo says it is considering an appeal...
That warning was a sign of the Communist regime's growing awareness of the importance of trademark and patent protection, especially among potential foreign investors. China's trademark law only took effect in 1982, and enforcement has been spotty at best. The latest finger pointing at unauthorized mouseketeers was a significant indication that the government was trying to take its rules more seriously...
...owns the wonder drugs that the biotechnology industry creates through genetic engineering? This is turning out to be a thorny question. As a result, firms may have trouble getting widespread patent protection for their new products. South San Francisco-based Genentech last week lost a significant legal battle when a British high court failed to uphold a patent that the company had received in Britain on t-PA, a substance that dissolves blood clots, a cause of heart attacks. Some industry experts think the British case could be a harbinger of more patent troubles for biotech firms. In the aftermath...
...brothers had discussed their control device with Octave Chanute, a respected elder in aeronautics and author of Progress in Flying Machines (1894). The free exchange of information among early flying enthusiasts would result in dozens of patent-infringement suits brought by the Wrights in the U.S. and Europe...