Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patent-Leather Style. Machine-made models appeared, but they looked fake and felt creepy. Then, a couple of months ago, a synthetic wig made of Dynel was introduced that looked like hair, felt like hair, kept its curl (or coiffure) for months without resetting, and was relatively cheap. Imitators and competitors came up with part-hair, part-nylon models (like the Myerlon wigs, at $35; the acetate, at $10.95), and even with cheap, phony party or swim-cap versions...
...Brien quickly has Manus (referred to simply as "The Brother") escape to England and there grow rich by founding a bogus correspondence academy. Sample subjects: Egyptology, Cure of Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...
...Blood. The bad blood between RCA and Philco dates back to a 1957 antitrust action in which Philco charged that it was unfairly handicapped in its manufacture of radio and TV sets by RCA's industry-blanketing control of some 12,000 patents, and demanded $150 million in treble damage payments. RCA angrily countered with charges of patent infringement against Philco. A consent decree negotiated by the Justice Department in 1958 put the RCA patents in a royalty-free pool, but the legal battle between Philco and RCA raged on through a maze of hearings and counterclaims...
Early this month RCA launched a new, double-pronged attack seemingly designed to convince Ford that this inherited squabble would be excessively costly to pursue. Though RCA now holds patents on the only color television tube to meet FCC standards. RCA lawyers charged that since 1953 Philco has been conspiring to set up a patent pool that would establish a monopoly position for Philco's own color television equipment. In the process, asserted RCA, Philco plotted to withhold color television from the public until the last dollar was squeezed from black and white sales and sought to undercut public...
...Patent Infringed. The book's only egregious fault is its beginning: there, the author salaams toward Oxford, Miss., as almost every new Southern writer has done for two decades. The first several pages describe the ride of the poor-white heroine, Rosacoke Mustian, as she bumps on the back of Wesley Beavers' motorcycle toward the funeral of a Negro friend. "Just with his body and from inside like a snake, leaning that black motorcycle side to side, cutting in and out of the slow line of cars to get there first, staring due-north through goggles toward Mount...