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HEDY LAMARR'S PATENT...
Hedy Lamarr is always ahead of her time. In 1933 she pranced naked onscreen in Ecstasy. Now Lamarr, 82, is being recognized for a different breakthrough. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is honoring her for a 1942 patent that anticipated frequency-hopping technology used in satellites and cellular phones...
...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...