Word: patent
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...this point, Zack decided it was time to pull out the big guns. He reached behind him and pulled out a piece of paper, from which he began to read: "Mr. Ahmann, is it not true that in 1981 you went to the U.S. Patent Office because you were worried about defects in the voting device you'd approved - and which had been installed and still operates down in Miami-Dade county...
Globalization's most optimistic boosters are fond of such sunny homilies as "no two countries that have McDonald's have ever fought a war." Nice advertising slogan, but it's patent nonsense...
...highlighted three still-unexamined areas: DNA's role in the criminal process, the ability of DNA to predict predisposition to certain medical conditions and the application of patent laws to genetic research...
...patent law approach is a one-size-fits-all approach. The question is, does it fit to the world of genetic research?" Breyer said...
...said that the crux of patent law is deciding whether a discovery "amounts to a protectable invention or useful device." In the case of genetic research, scientists sometimes apply when they have discovered "an existing aspect of nature" in which case a patent would not apply...