Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason that Xerox Corp. has a quarter of the $500 million office copying field to itself is the more than 300 U.S. patents it holds covering its unique method of duplicating documents. None of them had ever been challenged in court until last week, when SCM Corp. and Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. took on Xerox in what could become one of the biggest patent fights in modern business history...
Last week the Patent Office issued Xerox a patent covering this method too, on the ground that it had worked on it first. SCM already was in court charging Xerox with overall patent "misuse"; the Xerox patent award was quickly followed by an Addressograph suit, charging Xerox with antitrust violations. In response, Xerox sued both SCM and Addressograph for patent infringement...
...Bleak & Grim." Author Harrington has not been consulted, but it is clear that his book contributed to Johnson's new drive. Born into relative comfort in St. Louis (his father was a patent attorney), Harrington went to Holy Cross
...universe, what 17th century Mystic Jakob Böhme might call "a signature of God." It crops up all over in nature-in viruses, testicles, the cornea of the eye. And for the time being at least, Bucky Fuller has this signature of God sewed up tight in U.S. patent No. 2,682,235, issued in June 1954. It is almost like having a patent on Archimedes' principle...
...assuage the Gallic gland, French men gulp some 7,000 varieties of patent medicines - notably, Les Petites Pilules Carters Pour Le Foie - as well as treating it to massage, hot baths, compresses, radioactive water, herbs, fasts, purges, exercises, and injections, naturally, of liver. Says an Anglo-Saxon doctor who has practiced for many years in Paris: "I have never examined a Frenchman who did not believe that he had liver trouble." Undoubtedly, the Frenchman's liver takes a worse beating than any other variety on earth, except that of the geese they force-feed for foie gras. The French...