Word: patent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final shots of Confidentially Yours sum up what the movie is all about. Showing a choirful of angelic-looking children singing in a cathedral, the camera zooms in on the first row of black patent-leather shoes. We are shown a rock that is being kicked from one child to the next, back and forth, teasingly, pointlessly, as the credits flash...
...Technics International, a genetic engineering firm located in North Cambridge. (Klotz was Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard when recombinant DNA research first began.) His knowledge brings some surprising insights: for example, the commercial production of a drug can often be speeded up if scientists patent the manufacturing process. The sale of penicillin, by contrast, was held back 15 years because its discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, had deemed it ignoble to patent the process...
Rival financiers originally laughed at the proposal, but last week they stopped abruptly. Dean Witter Reynolds paid Merrill Lynch $1 million in an out-of-court settlement in a case involving patent rights for the CMA. The legal battles over the CMA, though, have only begun. Paine Webber has gone into federal court in Delaware questioning the validity of the patent, and Merrill Lynch reportedly is considering suits against Prudential-Bache and Shearson/American Express, which also have CMA clones...
...that of the defninition of diplomacy. Eban puts it besat himself, "Diplomacy is not theology; there is no salvation in it. The best hope is that tensions can be held short of explosions that some to the slower, unobtrusive currents flowing toward stability will be allowed to take their patent course." Sobering as this may sound, it is the best we can hope...
Gilbert was unavailable for comment yesterday. But in a prepared statement he said that the methods described in the patent should be useful in the commercial production of proteins such as insulin, human search albumin, and other recombinant products...