Word: patentable
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...gender nonconformity have actually become mainstream. In the past five years, several movies, plays, tabloid shows and famous cross-dressers like RuPaul have moved drag from the fringes of gay culture to prime time. Even Teletubbies, a show for toddlers, features Tinky Winky, a boy who carries a red patent-leather purse...
...most nimble Chinese gymnast would find tough to maintain. The Net, after all, is designed to be open. And if the idea of the Web is to make Chinese firms more competitive, that means letting them have access to everything from DuPont's chemicals website to the U.S. Patent Office's listing of new inventions. For that reason, some Chinese think the government will drop all its talk about an intranet and throw open the doors. Says a 24-year-old engineer at Unicom-Sparkice: "Walk into any Chinese company with Net access and look at the hard drives; look...
Actuality Systems applied for a "provisional patent" for the display unit in 1996 and expects full patent approval by 1999, he said...
Gilbert also refuted the Globe'scharacterization of the patent system as a way of"looting" the public...
...patent system] is very effective with alimited social cost," Gilbert says. "The 10 yearsduring which you can charge what you will is shortcompared to the eternity [for which the public hasaccess to a scientist's invention]."File photoProfessor THOMAS P. MANIATIS...