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...highlighted three still-unexamined areas: DNA's role in the criminal process, the ability of DNA to predict predisposition to certain medical conditions and the application of patent laws to genetic research...
...flunked the admissions test--used a new chemical etching technique. It could not only print transistors on silicon wafers directly, like patterns in a rug, but also lay down the critical connecting tracks between them, simplifying the chips' manufacture and increasing their speed. Fairchild and TI fought a bitter patent battle that Fairchild ultimately won. But the gentlemanly Kilby and equally gentlemanly Noyce, who died in 1990 at age 62, were always content to call themselves co-inventors...
...Following Clinton's suggestion, Roussel Uclaf donates the U.S. patent to the Population Council...
...alternative to surgical abortion. The FDA under President Bush banned its import in 1989, citing safety concerns. On his third day in office, President Clinton lifted the ban and ordered the FDA to begin safety testing. Developer Roussel Uclaf, meanwhile, sick of getting hammered by both sides, donated U.S. patent rights for mifepristone to the Population Council, a nonprofit reproductive-rights group founded 50 years ago by John D. Rockefeller. The council had to steer the drug through U.S. trials, file the applications for approval, weather the political storms and lawsuits that followed every step of the process. No wonder...
Legal experts say that the decision will depend largely on whether the court focuses on the meaning of the patent code or whether it takes a more philosophical perspective in its analysis...