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...many undergraduates wore red ribbons to commemorate World AIDS Day Friday, a group of students joined about 100 protesters in a demonstration against a pharmaceutical company's patent on one of the most effective AIDS drugs on the market...

Author: By Sumi A. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Protest Pfizer on World AIDS Day | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...this point, Zack decided it was time to pull out the big guns. He reached behind him and pulled out a piece of paper, from which he began to read: "Mr. Ahmann, is it not true that in 1981 you went to the U.S. Patent Office because you were worried about defects in the voting device you'd approved - and which had been installed and still operates down in Miami-Dade county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimmer of Hope for Gore | 12/3/2000 | See Source »

Globalization's most optimistic boosters are fond of such sunny homilies as "no two countries that have McDonald's have ever fought a war." Nice advertising slogan, but it's patent nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Official Sandwich of the Intifada? | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...patent law approach is a one-size-fits-all approach. The question is, does it fit to the world of genetic research?" Breyer said...

Author: By Alyssa R. Berman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Breyer: Courts Must Adjust to DNA Era | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

...said that the crux of patent law is deciding whether a discovery "amounts to a protectable invention or useful device." In the case of genetic research, scientists sometimes apply when they have discovered "an existing aspect of nature" in which case a patent would not apply...

Author: By Alyssa R. Berman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Breyer: Courts Must Adjust to DNA Era | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

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