Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Later, when I arrived at his apartment for my initial interview," reported Welles, "the first thing His Grace did was to take off his shoes. Padding into his bedroom in stocking feet, he soon returned wearing loose patent-leather slippers and said, 'If this is going on for a good while, I might as well be comfortable...
...Sent the Atomic Energy bill back to joint Senate-House conference for further revision. Democrats charged that the bill's patent and licensing system denied preferred treatment to public and cooperative electric power organizations and would encourage private atomic energy monopolies. On a vote of 48 to 41 they won their point...
SUPERSALESMAN Dudley J. Le-Blanc, concocter of the leeringly ballyhooed patent medicine, Hadacol (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951), is open for business again with a new vitamin-and-alcohol cure-all he calls Karyon ($1.25 for a 7-oz bottle). Compared to bad-tasting Hadacol, says Medicine Man LeBlanc, "this has a very classy taste. We've flavored it with lemon extract...
...tucked away ten years before to improve the diesel engine. Until then, diesels had injected fuel either directly into the cylinder, which made them economical but slow, or through an antechamber, which made them fast but expensive. Perkins combined the best features of each system, and took out a patent. With hard times forcing every British trucker to cut costs, Perkins decided they would welcome an engine that would burn untaxed diesel oil, then about 9? a gallon, v. 18? for gasoline...
...spread income from work that took up no more than 24 months. Furthermore, Congress stretched the maximum spread-back period on invention income from 36 months to 60. Professional inventors also benefit from extension of a rule that formerly applied only to amateurs: they may now count income from patent transfers as capital gains rather than regular income...