Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Require certain patent drugs "attractive to children" to have safety-closure caps...
...young dude in a silken mustache and patent-leather shoes adrift through the California gold mine country, Harte discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
...believed Inventor Bert N. Adams in 1939 when he came out of his Queens Village, L.I., kitchen with a battery that seemed to revolutionize the original electrical "pile" devised by Alessandro Volta in 1796. Inventor Adams ultimately won a U.S. patent-and then the U.S. Government itself copied and repatented his battery without paying Adams a dime. Last week the Supreme Court not only agreed that Adams' battery met the U.S. patent test of being new, useful and "nonobvious"; by a vote of 7 to 1, the court also made clear that Adams' patent had been infringed during...
Adams got his patent in 1943; the Government got its own in 1953, based on the slight improvements of two army scientists. Adams finally got mad, and with the aid of an anonymous benefactor whom he credits with putting up $200,000 to fight the case, he went into the U.S. Court of Claims in 1960 and charged patent infringement. Fighting back, the Government cited older patents that used all of Adams' basic ingredients; an expert tried to build a battery according to the key (1880) patent, however, and the thing exploded. In the end, the court found that...
Keeping Lead Time. Greenberg intends to expand Koratron by means other than patent protection. "We've got the lead time in this field," he says, "and we intend to keep it." Koratron has lately extended its process to knitted goods, sponsors studies at the Stanford Research Institute to explore additional uses. It is also cooperating with Department of Agriculture chemists in experiments to find a way to shrinkproof and permanently crease wool, one fiber that still resists artificial processing. If the researchers succeed, men will one day be able to toss wool suits into washers, put them on again...