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Smith grew excited. An engineer and refrigeration expert who had installed systems for factories and ice-skating rinks, he had the engineering skills to produce such a clean fuel on an operating scale. "Let's get a patent," Keller suggested. "Start a company...
...treaties contained provisions for reducing emissions of global warming gases and protecting endangered species. In their original form, these provisions would have undercut American patent laws and further restricted the development of industry and technology, making America even less able to compete in the world market. Moreover, Bush objected to provisions requiring America to donate billions of dollars to aid Third World countries in developing environmentally safe technology...
Robert Kearns has a clear view from his car window to the bank, thanks to a federal jury in Detroit. Last week Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, was awarded $11.3 million for patent infringement by Chrysler. The carmaker must pay him about 90 cents for each of the 12.6 million cars it equipped with the wipers from 1977 to '88. Kearns, who won a similar judgment from Ford in 1990 for $10.2 million, has lawsuits pending against General Motors and 17 other carmakers...
...manages to avoid the patent lack of profundity inherent in the work of Keneally (who also wrote novels such as Cut Rate Kingdom and Gossip from the Forest), creating a multi-layered play which deals with issues that are very much important today. Within the confines of the time frame, Wertenbaker discusses the criminal character (is it habit or "innate tendency"?); the importance of art (is it "an expression of civilization" or a waste of time?); and patriotism (should these new immigrants try to "remember England" or transfer their allegiance to the "iniquitous shore" of Australia...
...hold the US patent that explicitly teacheshow [to make carbon 12]," says Seitz. "[GE] justup and ran off with it." The "60 Minutes" programwill report that Seitz's patent is cited in the GEpatent, Seitz said...