Word: patent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often, innovation and ideas developed in the U.S. are stolen by foreign firms. Congressional legislation is necessary to help American companies fight the illegal appropriation of patented products. A more active patent policy is also vital in this regard to ensure that American remains on the cutting edge of research and development...
...call, it was with advice, and not on X's and O's but on p's and q's. The man who founded the Cleveland Browns and gave them his name, who was fired once himself and had to live for a time on his face-mask patent, basically ordered better nutrition and more sleep. The sagest maneuver of the season may have been the removal of the cots from the coaches' offices in Cincinnati...
Harvard officials said that the bill would have little impact on the patent issued this spring to Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder '56 since the genetically-altered mouse that Leder developed would not be used by farmers...
Leder was at the center of a national controversy this spring after Harvard received the exclusive marketing rights for the genetically-altered strain of mice he created to do cancer research. It was the world's first animal patent...
Although the Morrison amendment would have keptLeder's patent intact, Harvard officials andbiotechnology advocates had opposed it on thegrounds that it would have unnecessarily hamperedresearch in the field...