Word: patent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Americans might be willing to ignore the patent absurdity of numerically ranking the nation's issues. But not many would believe Bush's contention that the debate over abortion rights, which for at least a year stood near paramount in American consciousness, suddenly dropped off the scale of national priorities on the eve of the elections...
Other issues loom. The issue of house diversity will pit student interests against student interests. The unfocused issue of Harvard's social life--especially the patent need for a student center--will pit student interests against the administration...
Slipping rolls of microfilm into briefcases, the thieves evaded detection so effectively that their heists went unnoticed for weeks at the libraries of 13 major universities. When the operation ended, apparently in July, their collection of 3,000 reels was complete: a microfilm record of nearly every patent issued in the U.S. since...
...steal patents? Even a curious spy can buy a copy of any single patent for $1.50. Still, a roll of the microfilm sells for about $100, and the full set could be worth at least $100,000 to inventors who must explore the past before pursuing a new idea. The FBI's best guess is that the thieves hope to sell duplicates at cut-rate prices...
Compared with an original, patented drug, a generic is much less expensive to develop. After the patent on a brand-name product has expired, usually involving a period of 17 years, a pharmaceutical company simply replicates the original drug's components. But in a two-year study released earlier this month, the American Academy of Family Physicians found that many generics are not as potent as their originals. Reason: unless certain production tricks are used, it is often difficult to produce a formulation that will work as well in the body as the brand-name drug. In its approval process...