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...Atomic Energy Commission would be transferred to the new department, along with the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Standards, the Patent Office, and other agencies, as part of a sweeping reorganization...
...started out as just another patent medicine. During a trip to Madagascar, Paris Pharmacist Georges Feuillet, who was already turning out 15 patent drugs, developed furunculosis (boils), and began experimenting with a new remedy. He used a combination of vitamin F* and an organic tin compound containing iodine (called di-iodo-diethyl of tin), which he imagined had a healing effect on skin. Feuillet took some of his capsules, then sent them to a friend, the head of a military hospital, who tried them out on his patients and found them "successful." Soon the Ministry of Health cleared them...
...research stars of Rome's Istituto Superiore di Sanità, he is a scientist's scientist who has spent a lifetime in quiet laboratories. Though his discoveries have been the basis of countless medical products-sulfa drugs, antihistamines, muscle relaxants-he has never taken out a patent in his own name or made a penny from the commercial exploitation of his findings...
...problems are compounded because only one of the many experimental pay systems is likely to survive, and stations that bet on a loser will suffer. New systems are coming out all the time. Solomon Sagall, a founder of Britain's TV-pioneering Scophony, Ltd., last week filed to patent a system that will send a clear picture but add sound only when a subscriber flicks a switch. Says Sagall: "The picture teases...
...rights from RCA and General Electric on black-and-white TV equipment, including tubes. It got similar rights on common-carrier communications equipment from Western Electric and the Bell System. At Philco Corp., which in 1956 filed a still pending $150 million antitrust suit against RCA involving color TV patents, nobody was talking yet. But after Zenith broke the ice, RCA's patent pool seemed to be thawing at last...