Word: patent
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...many undergraduates wore red ribbons to commemorate World AIDS Day Friday, a group of students joined about 100 protesters in a demonstration against a pharmaceutical company's patent on one of the most effective AIDS drugs on the market...
...intellectual property system in the U.S. gives discoveries to pharmaceutical companies to patent them...it's public risk for private gain," said Sheldon Krimsky, a doctor at Tufts University...
About halfway through the protest, BGAN delivered a letter of demands to a Pfizer vice president, including demands to drop the prices of the drug and to relinquish the patent...
...CORNELIUS HENRY RECEIVED A PATENT FOR THE "COMBINED MOUSE-TRAP AND BOX OF PAPER COLLARS AND LIKE ARTICLES...
...never marketed his idea. A few years later the German Johann Philipp Reis made a device he dubbed a telephone, over which he transmitted music. Alexander Graham Bell knew of Reis' experiments, and by 1876 had created the modern phone. A few hours after Bell filed his patent papers, Elisha Gray submitted an application for his own phone. Since Bell was first to apply, he reaped the glory...