Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rinso had proudly dominated that field since 1918, and Lever is still plenty mad over the $5,000,000 it had to dish out to Procter & Gamble and Colgate because a new spraying process Lever adopted in the late '20s turned out (in 1937) to be a patent infringement. About the same time, Lever enraged Procter & Gamble by bringing out Spry to compete with Procter & Gamble's long-established Crisco. Smart Lever Bros.—British-founded, now ambiguously owned by British Unilever's Dutch affiliate Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V., through a South African holding company—has always been...
...make a patent available to the public if, after three years, its owner has failed to use or license...
...make it unlawful for any patent license to prescribe prices, market areas, sales volume, etc. (This week the Supreme Court, in an 8-to-0 decision involving Univis Lens Co. patents, said flatly that this was already the law of the land...
...accusation was made last fortnight by Thurman Arnold, to the Senate Patents Committee. Mr. Dzus, said Mr. Arnold, had invented a unique self-locking screw that fastens the cowling on a plane's nose to the fuselage. He couldn't produce enough, and he wouldn't license anyone else. Ergo: U.S. bombers and fighters waited while Dzus failed to deliver. Said Thurman Arnold: "A perfect example of a patent . . . acting to block entire assembly lines...
When Toolmaker Dzus invented his screw, his employer offered him $100 a year for it. Instead Dzus took his patent and went into business for himself. That, he figured, was what patent laws are for. By the time the Senators had heard him through, Thurman Arnold's unterrified "perfect example" had proved just about the opposite of what Mr. Arnold intended...