Word: patentable
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...flunked the admissions test--used a new chemical etching technique. It could not only print transistors on silicon wafers directly, like patterns in a rug, but also lay down the critical connecting tracks between them, simplifying the chips' manufacture and increasing their speed. Fairchild and TI fought a bitter patent battle that Fairchild ultimately won. But the gentlemanly Kilby and equally gentlemanly Noyce, who died in 1990 at age 62, were always content to call themselves co-inventors...
...Following Clinton's suggestion, Roussel Uclaf donates the U.S. patent to the Population Council...
...alternative to surgical abortion. The FDA under President Bush banned its import in 1989, citing safety concerns. On his third day in office, President Clinton lifted the ban and ordered the FDA to begin safety testing. Developer Roussel Uclaf, meanwhile, sick of getting hammered by both sides, donated U.S. patent rights for mifepristone to the Population Council, a nonprofit reproductive-rights group founded 50 years ago by John D. Rockefeller. The council had to steer the drug through U.S. trials, file the applications for approval, weather the political storms and lawsuits that followed every step of the process. No wonder...
...think the court...erred in determining that these non-human mammals could be considered a 'composition of matter' within the terms of the Patent Act," said Rick Woyiwada, the government laywer on the case. "Similarly, we think they erred in determining that the non-human mammals can be considered an invention...
Legal experts say that the decision will depend largely on whether the court focuses on the meaning of the patent code or whether it takes a more philosophical perspective in its analysis...