Word: patent
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...same principle—although on a far greater scale—accounts for Harvard’s patent housing inequality. Administrators and students, with vested interests of course, seek to perpetuate the old lie that each House possesses its own unique and equally desirable character. However, anyone with the slightest amount of common sense and objectivity can see that the nature of one’s Harvard experience depends substantially upon whether the housing lottery sends their blocking group to luxuriate beneath Eliot’s turquoise bell tower or condemns them to three years of purgatory...
...only it had a patent lawyer on it too. The multitool market has been flooded with knock-offs, leaving loyal Leatherman owners to wonder, Is the original still the best? To find out, I put four high-end, fully loaded multitools through their paces: the Leatherman Wave ($99), the Gerber Multi-Plier 800 Legend ($136), the Victorinox SwissTool ($75; by the makers of Swiss Army knives) and the SOG PowerLock ($75). Be warned: prolonged exposure to multitools can fuel the dangerous delusion that you secretly are Batman...
...high-tech industries boomed, CI grew with them. Biotech and pharmaceutical companies have become especially skilled. "Because of all the patent information that's available, we know well in advance what is in someone else's pipeline," says SCIP president Mark Little. "You can see some of these things coming a long time away...
This month, five years after dropping out of medical school, Chan received U.S. patent 6,355,420 for what he calls “a totally new way of sequencing” that uses a laser to sequentially read large stretches of DNA sitting on a plastic chip...
...room shuffled out after Stanfield Professor of International Peace Jeffrey Frieden announced on the first day of Historical Study A-51: The Modern World Economy 1873–2000 that he did not intend to dilute the material, and that the class would be difficult. The hypocrisy here is patent, and, sadly, highly prevalent. One hears a abundance of whining about the lack of rigor in Core courses, but when push comes to shove, most of the complainers opt for Magic over Math 21a, “If there is no God.…” over Philosophy...