Word: patent
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...little tolerance for immigrants, least of all Koreans. When Son started Softbank in 1981, his ambitions so unnerved his first two employees that they quit within two weeks. The 39-year-old Japanese entrepreneur, who made his first $1 million at age 20 by selling an electronic-pocket-translator patent to Sharp, never blinked. Barely graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, he begged and borrowed enough to build a company that by 1995 controlled half the Japanese market for personal-computer software...
...says one result could be a mad scramble as companies vied for the patent to replicate the best cow or athlete extant...
Despite the court's admonition, Taborsky on the very next day defiantly filed for a patent. Nine months later, having pored over Taborsky's notebooks, Carnahan and a Florida Progress officer filed for the same patent. But the U.S. Patent Office in 1992 granted two patents to Taborsky. Infuriated, the university appealed to the district court judge, who ordered Taborsky to assign his patents to the university or be sent to prison. When Taborsky balked, he was sentenced to 3 1/2 years. Jennifer, exhausted by the legal battles, left him. "I decided that the case was more important than...
...Washington memorabilia shop, had started selling his Inaugural trinkets to the public. The committee fired off a "cease-and-desist" letter. Harlin scooped it by applying for a trademark for the Inaugural seal seven weeks before the Clintonites did. Approval is pending for both sides. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office says that although the trademark has not been maintained, use determines rights. Hence, lack of a trademark registration does not preclude protection. So which is which...
DIED. CHARLES HAMILTON, 82, handwriting expert who in 1983 was one of the first authorities to expose the so-called Hitler diaries as "patent and obvious forgeries"; in New York City...