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...intellectual property system in the U.S. gives discoveries to pharmaceutical companies to patent them...it's public risk for private gain," said Sheldon Krimsky, a doctor at Tufts University...
About halfway through the protest, BGAN delivered a letter of demands to a Pfizer vice president, including demands to drop the prices of the drug and to relinquish the patent...
...CORNELIUS HENRY RECEIVED A PATENT FOR THE "COMBINED MOUSE-TRAP AND BOX OF PAPER COLLARS AND LIKE ARTICLES...
...never marketed his idea. A few years later the German Johann Philipp Reis made a device he dubbed a telephone, over which he transmitted music. Alexander Graham Bell knew of Reis' experiments, and by 1876 had created the modern phone. A few hours after Bell filed his patent papers, Elisha Gray submitted an application for his own phone. Since Bell was first to apply, he reaped the glory...
...answer comes often late at night in the middle of a cable-TV show or sometimes on the back of a magazine. For a few hundred dollars, you are told, an invention-promotion company will evaluate your invention, research the patent to see whether anyone else had the idea first, and then contact manufacturers on your behalf. With one good idea, the ads say, you could be sitting on millions...