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Small companies are generally reluctant to tangle with big ones in patent disputes, which can take years and cost millions of dollars. But recent cases--including a 1997 judgment in which Fonar Corp. won $128 million from General Electric over use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology--have persuaded more lawyers to represent the little guys on a contingency basis. "Lawyers today realize there are efficient ways to handle these cases," says Frederick Tecce of Philadelphia, a former U.S. attorney who now takes patent cases. Tecce represents designer Eric Hicks, who has sued Nike over popular TV commercials in which...
...best clue to Kamen's intentions may be the patent application he filed in late 2000 for a series of self-balancing "personal mobility vehicles." It's known that Kamen and his colleagues have been working for years on a clean, sealed-combustion Stirling engine that could run on any fuel, including hydrogen. The prevailing theory is that Ginger would combine Stirling technology with a stabilizing system pioneered in Kamen's stair-climbing wheelchair. (The wheelchair's code name, by the way, was Fred. Get it? Fred and Ginger.) The newest clues are the names of two websites registered...
...Tsai holds the patent on slow opening scenes, and this one doesn't disappoint. We see a man (Miao Tien) at a kitchen table doing nothing for a full minute. Then he gets up, goes outside and returns to his nothingness at the table. Four minutes. And that's the last we see of him; he dies, off camera, soon after. We're then introduced to his son, Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who sells watches in Taipei. Days after his father's death a young woman, Shiang-chyi (Chen Shiang-chyi), buys a dual-time watch from him before...
...Congress was already in the process of debating the renewal of a measure that gives brand-name drug companies an extra six months of patent protection on their products if they do studies on how they work on children. Before the law was passed in 1997, pediatricians had little information on whether drugs were safe or effective for their young patients, and often had to guess how to calibrate doses of even well known medicines. For drugmakers, testing drugs on kids wasn't profitable; the money was in the adult market. The law led to a flurry of studies (more...
Thompson promised last week that the U.S. wouldn?t violate Bayer?s patent, though lawyers say the federal government has the authority to do so. Bayer sells its drug to the government for about $1.50 a dose, about one-third of the usual wholesale price. The Bush Administration has announced plans to spend $643 million increasing the nation?s drug stockpile, not only of Cipro, whose active ingredient is ciprofloxacin, but also of two other anthrax fighters, penicillin and doxycycline. Though they are much cheaper than Cipro, they are not as effective against genetically engineered anthrax...