Word: patentable
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...reputable drug manufacturers prompt legal protection against "irresponsible firms." Klipstein may yet get his wish-at least in part. Along with foreign drugmakers. the big Italian pharmaceutical houses have grown fed up with the pirating of formulas by small competitors. "It's about time Italian manufacturers got some patent protection," roars Franco Palma, the president of Squibb's Italian affiliate. "We put millions into developing new products, and someone comes along and turns out the same thing without spending a cent on research...
Half a Loaf. The big drug companies have found an ally in Italy's Minister of Industry and Commerce Emilio Colombo. 42, who has had a bill drawn up that would provide full patent protection for chemical processes in Italy. But under the leadership of Deputy Antonio Cremisini, a Milan drugmaker whose own firm, I.B.I., is among those accused by Cyanamid of pirating its processes, the small Italian companies are putting up an effective political fight to write into the bill an amendment that would guarantee them the right to produce under license any new drug developed...
...invention of a prototype radar set that could measure the distance and speed of moving ships and airplanes; of a heart attack; in Fair Haven, N.J. The device was kept a military secret until after World War II, when the Army applied for a patent in Blair's name that was finally granted in 1957; the Army, which got free use of the invention (Blair received royalties from all non-Government manufacturers), gratefully proclaimed him "Father of Radar...
This disillusionment, vague though it may be, still senses the patent failure of Kennedy to live up to his battle cry. The President admittedly has not got the nation moving as fast as he and everyone else would like. So, facing the off-year elections, what does he plan to do about it? In the simplest of terms, he hopes to blame everything on the Republicans...
...impoverishment by riches is only one of the strange strains that federal money puts on schools. Among professors, the academic pecking order has made the research grant, in the cutting words of Critic Jacques Barzun, "tantamount to a patent of nobility." Moreover, most federal research is still confined to a few great universities with a corner on great scholars...