Word: patent
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With all the dazzling dollars being invested in new commercial firms (E.F. Hutton just sunk $50 million of its investors' money into DNA Science Inc., a New York-based biotechnology firm), the nation's universities may have the most to gain from the explosion of interest. The first U.S. patent covering techniques of recombinant DNA was awarded to Stanford University in January. Stanford, which pursued that patent through the courts for six years, is now entitled to royalties from any commercial company that uses its techniques. Fortunately for them, the patented procedure covers methods that nearly all companies will...
With souls of patent leather...
...Spain. Since its formation in 1844 during the Bourbon monarchy, the corps had been the efficient internal security force of the central government in Madrid. Under Franco, it became part of the dictatorship's apparatus of repression. For many Spaniards, the gray-green uniform and the black patent-leather cap remain symbols of reaction and oppression. Thus hardly anyone in Spain was surprised last week when the coup attempt turned out to be spearheaded by men from the corps's traffic division...
...case, as enthusiasm grows for what gene splicing may eventually be able to accomplish, the debate has become moot. Chief Justice Warren Burger himself acknowledged this when he declared, in the 1980 patent decision, that no one will be able to "deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides." What both the public and scientists can do is to ensure that this insatiable inquisitiveness is channeled to serve the common good. So far, the proud record of gene splicers seems to bear out the hope that it will...
...operated by remote control. El Toro has graded levels of difficulty, working up from a bovine shimmy designated One to a shake-and-break Ten. The headless, vinyl-and-steel contraption was developed as a teaching aid for rodeo cowboys by New Mexico Inventor Joe Turner, who sold his patent to Saloonkeepers Mickey Gilley and Sherwood Cryer for $70-000 in 1979; it has since cleared at least $1 million profit for the partners, who have sold 400 of the critters...