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...almost sold out, and then we were contacted by the University, because we hadn’t registered the patent properly with Harvard,” said Matthew M. Chingos ’05. “We sold...

Author: By Romina Garber and Rebecca D. O’brien, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Thumbing Noses at Keg Ban, Students Still Plan To Party | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

...being heavily involved with a start-up company means leaving academia. Even academics who hand off their work to corporations without getting involved in running a company face ethical issues. For example, academics may choose to withhold certain discoveries from their academic competitors if they need to get a patent first. The potential for a serious conflict of interest always lurks. In a discussion about the issues involved in bringing discoveries from the lab to market, Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics John J. Mekalanos jokingly called the venture capitalist sitting next to him a “vulture...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Larry Says: Let’s Get Rich | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

Jurassic 5’s sophomore effort Power in Numbers is slightly darker and more mature than their debut Quality Control. Although their patent irreverence remains a major part of their work, often beginning songs with silly dialogues or injecting odd samples from movies or television shows, the content has taken a more serious turn. Veering sharply away from the well-traveled path of mainstream rap, this album has a very high proportion of tracks with fairly deep messages. “Freedom,” the second track, introduced by the 53-second first track “This...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff and Steven N. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Music | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

...happiness is largely a matter of expectations, losing a job can be hardest, psychologically, on those who have the farthest to fall. Nathan Wolf had five degrees, 34 years of experience at IBM and a new career as a patent lawyer--or so he thought. Laid off by a law firm in Reston, Va., he finds it "embarrassing" to have to network. The job hunt is stressful, despite the support of his wife and five children. "Let's be very blunt about it," he says. "I'm 61, and I'm probably not seen as the best investment, even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Manage for Food | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...written in English, French and German. “Do you pronounce this organic compound as Le Ketone or La Ketone?” jokes Pilkiewicz. The others—four concentrating in chemistry and one each in engineering, computer science and biological anthropology—laugh at the patent hilarity of the fact that the French name is exactly the same as the English version...

Author: By Maggie Morgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'The Closest Harvard Comes To MIT' | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

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